[wellylug] running a program at startup

[Jamie Dobbs]

Sunday, June 13, 2004, 11:27:03 AM, you wrote:

RG> I being completely lazy here by asking you guys rather than looking it
RG> up myself but it's Sunday and it's supposed to be a day of rest!

RG> I want to start a program in the background every time I startup my
RG> computer and for it to run irrespective of which user account I log
RG> onto.

RG> So how do I do this???

RG> Thanks, Rob.

Add a line to /etc/rc.d/rc.local (and ensure that the file is
executeable) is the way that I have done this in the past.