run a command on boot

[febisfebi]

i was wondering how i could have a command be run when my system boots automatically, before anyone logs in. :p

[computer dork]

put the command into the rc.local script.
That's the script that executes after everything else initializes upon boot up.

This is also only if your running Red Hat are on the RH-based distros. I'm not sure about Slack and Debian. I'm almost certain it will be different for them.

[febisfebi]

thanks, that halps things, but i just was thinking that maybe there is a network start script that i could add it to, because it is the command that i use to connect myself to the internet, and if i want to restart the network remotely, i get disconnected, and my server is offline til i can get to it.

[bdg1983]

If you want to add the command to your network startup script, then try

/etc/rc.d/init.d/network