[Xastir] splay and Xastir

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, James Cameron 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.

This must be new since I learned about cron many years ago.  Perhaps
Linux-specific?  I initially learned on SCO Xenix 286 and BSD Unix.


> 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.

That's BSD-ish (old style).  System5 init stuff is done with
/etc/rc.d/init.d scripts and symlinks into /etc/rc.d/rc?.d
directories to activate them at various runlevels.

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