[ltp] Automatically running programs on startup

[Jim Harvey]

IBM ThinkPad wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Kelly John Rose wrote:
> 
> 
>>Where is the Linux equivalent of the autoexec.bat file?
>>
>>I need to have my computer automatically run the following on startup and
>>I cannot figure out how to do it
>>
>>cardctl insert
>>ifconfig eth0 up
>>
>>both run in Boot mode.
>>
> 
> try
> 
> /etc/rc.d/boot.local
> 
> or something like that. that's the place where you can put your
> own stuff.

What is the problem in the first place?  I had a PCMCIA Ethernet card that would come up on boot but the eth0 configuration would fail.  I solved the problem by rearranging the file names in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d so the pcmcia ran earlier in the sequence.  The files are executed in alpha order, just change the number in the name to rearrange the order.

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  Jim Harvey - WB8NBS/9 - Naperville, Illinois - Linux on a Thinkpad 770Z


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