Start a process at boot and stop it at a particular time

[ankursinha]

Hi guys,

Can someone tell me how to start a process when the system boots and stop it at a particular time.

I want the process to start when the user boots his machine and I want it to stop at 5 o clock in the evening.

Thanks in advance.

Anks

[Lazydog]

The process you want to run at boot you can place a script into rc.local which will be run on boot. Then just create a cron job o kill it at 5pm.