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Re: autostart for users



On Thu 21 Nov 2013 at 11:36:40 +0000, Darac Marjal wrote:

> You could teach your users to add programs to their crontab.
> 
>  $ crontab -e
> 
> will open an editor (specified by the $EDITOR variable) with the user's
> crontab. Adding a line such as "@reboot /home/flindner/mydaemon.sh" will
> cause mydaemon.sh to be run as the user upon reboot.

That solution saved me some time today as part of a project I've
undertaken. It works very nicely. Thank you.

crontab(5) is, of course, the source for this special string.


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