Starting program on bootup

[olacelle]

Hi,

I need to start a program on bootup. I've read a little on the subject and I see different possibilities and I'm not sure which to use. I'm using Centos.

Should I put my program in etc/inittab?
Should I put it in etc/rc.d/rc.local?
Should I put a script it in /etc/rc.d/init.d?

Any advice or recommendation would be much appreciated.

Thank you.

olacelle

[hazel]

I take it you're talking about a background daemon. I'd start it in rc.local. That's what rc.local is for. The scripts in init.d need to follow quite complex conventions to make sure that they're bullet-proof, as you can see by looking at one of them. Best not to meddle with them!

[olacelle]

Yeah it's background daemon. I like the rc.local solution although it is not working at the moment. I simply added a line in /etc/rc.d/rc.local that looks like this:

/MyProgramPath/MyProgram

Now when I boot it hangs on a blue screen just before the username prompt.
I had to get by this by pressing 'I' on bootup (interactive) and answer 'N' when starting 'Local'. Is my synthax wrong?

Thanks

olacelle

[crackmind]

yes u can put it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local

[darkrose0510]

Yeah it's background daemon. I like the rc.local solution although it is not working at the moment. I simply added a line in /etc/rc.d/rc.local that looks like this:

/MyProgramPath/MyProgram

Now when I boot it hangs on a blue screen just before the username prompt.
I had to get by this by pressing 'I' on bootup (interactive) and answer 'N' when starting 'Local'. Is my synthax wrong?

Thanks

olacelle

/MyProgramPath/MyProgram &

in rc.local will do the trick, the & will run the program in the background and therefore not hang the boot process.

[olacelle]

That's what I was missing. It did the trick. Thanks a lot darkrose0510!

olacelle