[Xastir] splay and Xastir

[Tim Billingsley]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:58 PM, James Cameron <vk2lqz at wia.org.au> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
Nice thing about Linux - Do it the way that works for you.
I personally like and prefer using cron, it just works and does so exactly
when I tell it to.


> > /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/
>