Re: howto start something 5 mins after boot

[Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de>]

Am 2006-04-30 15:54:38, schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom:
> 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?

----8<------------------------
#!/bin/bash

fnc()
{
  sleep 300
  
  YOUR_SCRIPT_HERE
}

fnc &
disown

exit 0
----8<------------------------

then call the script from whatever runlevel you want...
like 

    /etc/rc2.d/S99zzzz-yourscript

which would probably run as last...

Greetings
    Michelle Konzack


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