Re: setting up variables

From: Howard J. Rogers <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au>
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 06:04:28 +1000
Message-Id: <3f7b340a$0$28123$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>

Noons wrote:

> "Helder Lopes" <ew4hsjwi_at_esoterica.pt> wrote in message
> news:3f7ab86a$0$7713$a729d347_at_news.telepac.pt...
>

>>
>> I been looking in the help of profile but I didn't find anything on how
>> can I set up variables or execute a script when the machine boots..

>
>
> Helder, in Unix (and Linux in this respect behaves like Unix),
> you control what happens at boot time through a processes
> known as "init()". Read about it in the man pages,
> there is a hierarchy of file system folders that you
> can place scripts in to run at specific points
> when the system starts up and shuts down.
> Read also about "inittab".
>

And watch out for Red Hat 8 and 9, because they need a file in the var/lock/subsys directory before the scripts in the rcX.d directories even get looked at (learnt this the hard way, with Tanel's invaluable assistance)>

Regards
HJR Received on Wed Oct 01 2003 - 15:04:28 CDT