Thanks for the insight. Itmt I found a very easy way to set some parameters at boottime: I amended /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh and put hdparm and aumix entries at the bottom. Works fine.
Hans At 02:51 PM 7/16/00 +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: >On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 01:55:38PM +0200, Hans wrote: >> As far as I understood: >> Scripts run at boottime are located in /etc/init.d > >You can't say that. All scripts are in there. > >Things in /etc/rcS.d/ are run at boot time. (See /etc/rcS.d/README >for infos) > >What's also run at boot time are the things for the default run level. >Check your /etc/inittab for that. > >> Links to these scripts are located in /etc/rc*.d (depending on the runlevel) >> These links begin with Sxx+scriptname and are processed according to there >> number. >> Am I right? > >Yes. > >> What I want to do: I have a small shell script (setting hdparm, aumix, etc) >> called boot.sh which I want to run when my box boots. I thought of putting >> it in /etc/init.d, then make the link /etc/rc2.d/S50boot.sh. Is this the >> proper way to do this? Thanks for the input. > >One way of doing it. Note that this only gets run at boot time when the >default run level is 2, which happens to be so right now, but might >be changed later, so check /etc/rcS.d/README for a better way. > >I don't know the policy if there is any on this topic(?), but you can always >have an @reboot entry in root's crontabs. > >If in any doubt, see /usr/doc/sysvinit/README.runlevels.gz for more infos. >It's all documented. > >HTH >Sven >-- >The program required me to install Windows 95 or better ... > ... so I installed Linux. > --- It's nice to be like, but better by far to get paid -- Liz Phair
