From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from outbound.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.171] ident=mailnull) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1FLgo2-0001Nw-00 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:21:50 -0500 Received: from 24-105-197-112.cm.mhcable.com ([24.105.197.112] helo=hq) by outbound.mailhop.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.51) id 1FLgo1-0003Xe-WE for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:21:50 -0500 Received: from chuckh by hq with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FLgoq-00013x-DG for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:22:40 -0500 X-Mail-Handler: MailHop Outbound by DynDNS X-Originating-IP: 24.105.197.112 X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.mailhop.org/outbound/abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: corcyra Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:22:40 -0500 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Debian equivalent Message-ID: <20060321132240.GA3972@hhs48.com> Mail-Followup-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <000701c64c89$8f7cf740$6601a8c0@danmint> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000701c64c89$8f7cf740$6601a8c0@danmint> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 From: Charles Hallenbeck X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:21:50 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Dan, Nope, no rc.local. Here is what I did: Go into /etc/init.d and create a script containing whatever you want to do in an rc.local. I called mine "mystartups" but I suppose you could even call it "rc.local" if you want. Remember that you do not yet have a reasonable path established when this script will execute.Give it execute permissions. Next, also as root, run update-rc.d to add this script to your normal bootup scripts. You can specify which runlevels it should start in or stop in, or just use the Debian defaults, which will be okay. But you have to give it a priority, 99 will make it the last thing to execute on startup. You can check the update-rc.d man page for details, but as near as I can recall without checking, it might look like this: update-rc.d mystartups defaults 99 You now have a bunch of other scripts in your varius runlevel directories of the form K99mystartups and S99mystartups which will kill or start the mystartups script as appropriate. Actually it doesn't make sense to kill such a script, it will just run it again anyway, unless within your script you check to see what parameter it was run with. HTH Chuck - -- The Moon is Waning Gibbous (63% of Full) Get downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh and remember, INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEH/4gXnuiIOyDVQURAgfnAJ9KCGYKGkyTxcwfz6hYhfEIk463SQCfYQHc iS6mAp4wTRRkbp3pnTO5yyw= =O1lU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----