Re: Universal method to start a script at boot

[Brad Tilley <rtilley@vt.edu>]

On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 12:17 +0800, Michael Clark wrote:
> Brad Tilley wrote:
> 
> >This is off-topic and I apologize. However, I think some here could answer
> >this.
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Is there a standard way to start a script or program at boot that will work
> >>on any Linux kernel/distro no matter which init system is being used or how it
> >>has been configured? Probably not, but I thought someone here could possibly
> >>answer this.
> >>    
> >>
> 
> You could use the LSB conforming method of writing and installing
> an init script:
> 
> http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.0.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/iniscrptact.html
> http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.0.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/iniscrptfunc.html
> http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.0.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/initscrcomconv.html
> http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.0.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/initsrcinstrm.html
> 
> Most of the main distros support this (Fedora, RHEL, SuSE,
> Mandriva, Debian, ...). Not to say all of them ship with the
> LSB support packages installed by default. Some do some don't.
> 
> On Debian I need to do an "apt-get install lsb".
> 
> ~mc
> 

Thank you. I think this is the best approach for me.