[plug] loading programs on startup

[Bernard Blackham]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 06:35:49PM +0800, Ryan Smith wrote:
> I've jsut made a program the continually checks the com port status,
> then shuts down the computer when a button is pressed.
> I was wondering is it possibly to load it when the computer boots, and
> do i have to change the code at all to make this happen (attached).

Hi Ryan,

You could put it in the crontab of a user and use the @reboot time
specifier in crontab. Being security paranoid, you could create a
user to run the program as, that could execute "sudo halt" to
shutdown... :) but getting back to the crontab:

@reboot /path/to/your/program

should start it on boot.

Regards,

Bernard.


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 Bernard Blackham 
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