On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Andrew Nemchenko wrote:

> There is an application that I want to start every time that the system is
> rebooted, what would be the best way to launch that application?

Depends which distro you're using, but probably the simplest way is to
add the command to start the application to an 'rc.local' file that
lives somewhere in /etc/rc.d/. Debian may use rc.boot for the same
purpose, but I don't know off the top of my head.

The more robust method (and I think the preferred one in general) is to
create a start/stop script in /etc/init.d/. (I think RedHat uses
/etc/rc.d/init.d/)

-Tim

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