On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 05:08:26PM -0500, Mumia W wrote:
>Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>>Hi,
>>With crontab you can start things any time or day, but not in a relative way,
>>e.g. 5 minutes after boot run a script.
>>How would you do that?
>>Thanks!
>>H
>
>You could create a bootscript that uses the "at" command, like so;
>
>/etc/init.d/mybootinit:
>echo myscript | at now + 5 minutes
>
>Of course you'd use update-rc.d to set the runlevels you want
>mybootinit to start in.
You could also use cron to do that:
@reboot echo myscript | at now + 5 minutes
(Untested, so no guarantees :-)
/M
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