Re: Program in startup

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

In both cases you want to run them in a subshell and cd to the desired
directory, to wit:

  (cd /home/em/fsdir;flowscan &)

The parens cause everything within to be executed in a subshell, so
that the "cd" doesn't affect the rest of the script.

For the cron job, you don't need the subshell:

*/5 * * * * cd /dir_containing_makefile;make

Hope that helps.

On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 09:33:27AM -0700, Liger-dc wrote:
> I have his program called flowscan that I want to start automatically whenever I reboot. The
> problem is that this program has to be run from the same directory  that contains it's config
> files. Is there any way to set up a command in my rc.local to get this running? 
> 
> A similar problem to this is that there is another program that uses a Makefile to generate .png
> and .gif files and I want to run make against this makefile every 5 mins. I used make -f
> /the/dir/that/the/makefile/is/in/Makefile in the cron, but I got errors because I wasnt in the
> directory with the makefile and the other files that it needed. These two problems seem similar.
> has anyone else had these problems?
> 
> =====
> Edson Manners
> Academic Computing & Networking Services
> Florida State University

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