Tuesday, July 28, 2009

How can you make a command execute on startup in Linux?

I'm using Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. I need to execute a command in the terminal to fully enable my trackpoint each time I boot. I'd like to make this automated. Does Linux have something similar to an autoexec file?

How can you make a command execute on startup in Linux?
Debian is the upstream from Ubuntu, it's almost the same process.





You can try with /etc/inittab .


I prefer to do it with /etc/init.d/*.sh
Reply:This link goes to a discussion on starting programs under linux - including on booting up.





http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/...





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