On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 11:20:55AM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 12:55:48PM -0500, Maciej Kalisiak wrote: > > How does one add commands to be executed after the machine boot is complete? > > When my box starts up, the sound levels are maxed out, and I'd like to be > > able > > to have the boot up process invoke a utility to bring them down to more > > reasonable levels. In RedHat I remember I placed stuff like this in > > /etc/rc.d/rc.local, or something similar. > > Put your one-time script links in /etc/rcS.d and the actual scripts in > /etc/init.d. These scripts are executed at every runlevel. There are > READMEs in /etc/rcS.d and /etc/init.d. /etc/rc.boot is deprecated. > --
I tried out a few mixers a while back, and at least some of them put their scripts in /etc/init.d/ on installation, in order to restore the mixer settings on startup. If you can shop around, you should find one which removes the need for you to mess around in /etc/. Sorry I can remember which ones ! -- Regards, Paul
