[Tipz] Executing commands on system boot

Ari Pollak ari at ccs.neu.edu
Tue Sep 9 14:03:40 EDT 2003


A little-known time specification in a crontab is @reboot. Using this,
the command you specify will execute only when cron starts.

Example:
@reboot		/home/ari/bin/somestartupscript.pl

As far as I know, this only works on vixie-cron, used with most Linux
systems.


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