Startup Script help

Hi,
I need to run a command when my Redhat 9 boots.

I have no idea where to put it!

I think it might be somthing to do with a file called RC, but there are lots of rc files!

Can anyone help

Thanks

Jacko

place it in /etc/rc.local and verify there is a link for it in /etc/rc3.d

(i.e. ls -o /etc/rc3.d/|grep rc.local)

Hi
Thanks for the help, i put it in /etc/rc.local and now it works!

But why would i want to put a link in /etc/rc3.d ?

Because everything that exists on /etc/rcX.d is being executed upon entering the X runlevel (according to some parameteres that come from the filename, S for start, K for stop, and the number that represents the relative execution sequence). Thus if there was not a link for rc.local in rc3.d then it wouldn't be executed upon entering runlevel 3 (which I think is the default - multiuser mode for redhat).

This is the SysV type of startup script management that redhat uses, I personally find more straitforward the bsd type.

This is my rc.local and I have not modified any other rc.x files.

Are you sure i need to modify the other rc.x files???

thanks

Jacko


[root@mrgreedy etc]# more rc.local
#!/bin/sh
#
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.

touch /var/lock/subsys/local
echo " "
echo "Starting Teamspeak Deamon"
echo " "
cd /home/tsuser/tss2_rc2/
./teamspeak2-server_startscript start

I didn't say you need to modify, only to verify that a link for rc.local exists in the proper place (most likely /etc/rc3.d). Since you said it works, it propably exists, so you don't have to do anything else.