===== Adding a startup script to be run at bootup =====
<p>So you have a script of your own that you want to run at bootup, each time you boot up. This will tell you how to do that. </p>
<p>Write a script. put it in the /etc/init.d/ directory.
  Lets say you called it FOO. You then run</p>
<p>  % update-rc.d FOO defaults  </p>
<p>You also have to make the file you created, FOO, executable, using

<code>$chmod +x FOO</code></p>
<p>You can check out 
  % man update-rc.d for more information. It is a Debian utility to install scripts. The option &#8220;defaults&#8221; puts a link to start FOO in run levels 2, 3, 4 and 5. (and puts a link to stop FOO into 0, 1 and 6.)</p>

<p> Also, to know which runlevel you are in, use the runlevel command. </p>



-- Main.FredPettis - 25 Feb 2009