running commands on boot/login

[ibanex22]

hey everyone,

I am needing to run a few commands each time I boot up and was wondering what is the correct way to go about this. I have heard a range of things that usually include rc.d. I need to run commands to 1.) mount my hard secondary hard drive 2.) set my screen blank time and 3.) set my background with fbsetbg.

any direction/suggestions would be great!

thanks,
Erik

[devils casper]

1.) mount my hard secondary hard drive

execute this code in terminal/konsole and post output here.

su -
fdisk -l

2)set my screen blank time
3)set my background with fbsetbg.

can you explain a little bit more?






Casper

[ibanex22]

devils_casper:

fdisk -l

gives me no output.

the commands i do upon login are:

Mounting drive:

mount -t ext3 /dev/hdd1 /maxtor

Change to no screen blanking time:

xset s blank
xset s 0

Change to: no standby, no suspend time, and 30000 sec monitor off time:

xset dpms 0 0 30000

[devils casper]

you must be root to execute fdisk command.

mount -t ext3 /dev/hdd1 /maxtor

add this line in /etc/fstab file

/dev/hdd1    /maxtor    ext3    defaults,umask=0 0 0

Casper

[ibanex22]

thanks Casper.

I'm still getting nothing for the fdisk command even when root... any ideas?

[devils casper]

thats weird ! did you add code in /etc/fstab file? it should mount hdb1 at boot up.
try '/sbin/fdisk -l'.
i asked for output of fsidk coz i didn't know the partition structure of second harddisk. you are mounting only one partition of second disk. it means, second disk has only one partition and i posted code for that.





Casper

[ibanex22]

this is quite strange....

debian:~# fdisk

Usage: fdisk [-l] [-b SSZ] [-u] device
E.g.: fdisk /dev/hda  (for the first IDE disk)
  or: fdisk /dev/sdc  (for the third SCSI disk)
  or: fdisk /dev/eda  (for the first PS/2 ESDI drive)
  or: fdisk /dev/rd/c0d0  or: fdisk /dev/ida/c0d0  (for RAID devices)
  ...

it seems to be going into fdisk alright but it wont do fdisk -l

I however can do fdisk -l /dev/hdd which gives me:

debian:~# fdisk -l /dev/hdd

Disk /dev/hdd: 300.0 GB, 300090728448 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36483 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdd1               1       36483   293049666    1  FAT12

yet I don't know why it would be FAT12? I formatted to ext3 and when i mount it is ext3

also my hard drive didn't mount when i booted up... I do only have one partition on the drive

strange stuff... if you have any other thoughts they would be greatly appreciated!

[Zelmo]

For your xset commands, you can make an init script. Or if you're using KDE, making an Autostart script is slightly easier. The script will be the same either way:

#!/bin/sh
xset s blank
xset s 0
xset dpms 0 0 30000

Just copy and paste that into a blank text file, save the file and make it executable (chmod +x filename). For KDE, put the file into your ~/.kde/Autostart directory. Every time KDE starts, those commands will be run.

A more universal way to do it (at least for Debian and Debian-based distros) is to put the script into /etc/init.d and make a symlink in the rc directory for whatever runlevel you want to run the commands. IIRC, Debian defaults to runlevel 2, so do something like this as root:

ln -s /etc/init.d/filename /etc/rc2.d/S99filename

If you want to be sure it runs regardless of what runlevel you boot into, do the above command for rc2.d through rc5.d.

[iwanabeguru]

maybe delete the partition and create a new one if it possible
use cfdisk command
and than run "mkfs.ext3"

[ibanex22]

I've got a ton of stuff on therer it's really not worth making the transfer. I'm gonna mess around with those rc.d files when I've got some time. Thanks for all the input guys