Add command to startup of SUSE Server ?

[vicmelb]

Hi,

We have a SUSE Linux v10 server and run VMWARE on this as well.

Our issue is VMWARE does not start automatically when we restart the SUSE server. What we usually do is wait until SUSE server has started, login as root, then shell to the command prompt and type VMWARE to start this service.

Can someone explain how we make this happen automatically at startup of the SUSE server so we do not need to login and do this each time? What file do we need to add this command to or do we need to write a script?

Thanks,
Vic

[daark.child]

You can add the commands to start vmware in the file /etc/init.d/boot.local. Another option is to create a script that can start vmware as a service.

[TuxKnight]

You could add a cronjob to start vmware after rebooting

@reboot /usr/bin/vwmare

[HROAdmin26]

VMWare Workstation is a user application that is started after you login. In order for it to auto-start, you'd have to have a user account that logs in after reboot. And then Workstation is started.

I'd suggest moving to VMWare Server, which runs as a service on the system.

[ohgary]

You can put a script in /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmscript

su -l WHATEVERY_USER /usr/bin/vmarware will start up the script as user WHATEVER