Re: run process in startup

[Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>]

On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:09:05AM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> =>> crontab -e
> =>> add at the end
> =>> @reboot /usr/local/bin/noip2
> =>  ^^^^^^
> =>Woah, cool. I never knew that -- very useful.
> I don't recommend it. Most things that happen at boot time are under root 
> it. When you place things in rc.local you know the order they will run 
> in.  Crontab entires are typically intended to not know anything about 
> order. To say that using this feature is obscure is an understatement. 
> Typically, people not only don't know to look in a crontab to see what's 
> going to happen at boot, they also don't have a convention for a location 
> of the file to be fed to crontab to reset it when needed. 

I agree, probably not the best for system tasks.

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