Re: howto start something 5 mins after boot

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

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.

Thanks guys!
I did not know :-( about at.
So all things being equal, I went for this method.
H