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Originally Posted by rork
Cronjobs are meant to start a process at a given time, isn't it better to add a script to /etc/init.d and start it via the right userlevel in /etc/rc#.d, that's how services are meant to start at boot? See also the debian reference. |
Yes you can use that method, but for a novice Linux Admin using cronjobs is easy. The @reboot command in cronjobs is about as easy a script as you can do to run a script after the server reboots.