[Xastir] splay and Xastir

[James Cameron]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 09:36:16AM -0800, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> Crontab is for programs you want to start on a periodic basis.

No, it's also for @reboot ... a special tag, see "man 5 crontab" ... it
means jobs get started as your username when the system has finished
booted.

> /etc/init.d is for starting/stopping programs when you start up your
> system or change runlevels.

Yes, although these generally run as root unless you do something to
switch user within the script.

On many Linux distributions there is also /etc/rc.local, a file that you
can place your startup commands in without having to fix up the init.d
symlinks.  These are run as root too.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/