Re: Startup script ?

["Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>]

In article <[🔎] 3FFC297C.1030508@acu.edu>,
Kent West  <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
>Marc Hultquist wrote:
>
>>  Ok well using apt-get through the proxy here at work, finally started
>>  working, basically I had to import a global variable I.E export
>>  http_proxy="blabla/"
>>
>>  Now what I wanted to ask, is how do I create a startup script in
>>  Debian, so that whenever the machine is re-started, rebooted or
>>  anything like that, that when it boots again that it will get the
>>  http_proxy for its global variable ? I.E where do I put the script
>>  and how do I make it so that the script is run everytime the machine
>>  restarts ?
>
>
>It may not be the canonical place, but I would probably put it in 
>/etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh

You could do that, but it would have no effect whatsoever ;)
It would be like turning up the volume on the car radio on the
way home, hoping that the TV set will sound louder after dinner.

Mike.