Run HoTTProxy at startup?

[Alaric]

I've got a program running on my ubuntu 7.04 server. I want the server to run "perl /opt/HoTTProxy/HoTTProxy.pl -e" with root permissions every time the computer starts up. I've already tried editing crontab with root privileges, but adding and @restart line didn't seem to do it. How do I get this proxy server to run at startup?

[Freston]

I'm not to familiar with the Debian based boot process, so I cannot provide you with a great level of detail. But, in general terms, this is the way I do it:

Add a rc.script_to_run to your bootscript directory. (Optionally you can give your script the start|restart|stop flags, which is nice )
Add a line to your rc.M pointing towards your rc.script_to_run like this:

if [ -x /path/rc.script_to_run ] ; then
/path/rc.script_to_run (start; if you build in that functionality)
fi

There is no necessity to do it like this though, it's just my own preference.