Re: What file to add command to start at bootime
On Monday 04 July 2005 03:42, Cao Van Khanh wrote:
> I have some script and would like to run it at boot
> time . I could not find how to do that in debian . In
> redhat I could add to /etc/rc.d . How to make it in
> debian ?
> Thank for reading
Under debian the rc?.d directories are split out by
runlevel. Runlevel 0 is shut-down, runlevel 1 is single
user and runlevels 2-5 can be used for normal setups.
Debian at installation appears to put everything else
at runlevel 2 and shoot for a runlevel 2 once up and
running. SuSE certainly used to spread things out much
more amongst the runlevels at installation out of the
box; haven't looked at it for a few years so I don't
know if it still does.
Anyway, if you have a fairly vanilla setup and you want
this always to run at boot, I suggest you put the
script in rc2.d and name it S<number><scriptname>. The
number affects the order it gets run in. I _think_ the
number has to be 2 digits.
If your script starts a service of some kind, then you
should but a script to shut it down, following the
convention K<number><scriptname>, in either / both of
rc0.d and rc1.d (rc1.d if this service should not run
in single user mode).
The number after the K again sets the order; services
should as far as practical be stopped in the reverse
order they are started in.
Hope that helps.
Mark
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