Friday, July 3rd, 2009 | Posted by admin

How can you make a command execute on startup in Linux?

I’m using Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. I need to execute a command in the terminal to fully enable my trackpoint each time I boot. I’d like to make this automated. Does Linux have something similar to an autoexec file?

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2 Responses for “How can you make a command execute on startup in Linux?”

  1. logicaemp says:
    July 3, 2009 at 1:36 am

    Debian is the upstream from Ubuntu, it’s almost the same process.

    You can try with /etc/inittab .
    I prefer to do it with /etc/init.d/*.sh

  2. l d says:
    July 3, 2009 at 1:36 am

    This link goes to a discussion on starting programs under linux – including on booting up.

    http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/start-up-scripting-and-auto-login-for-stand-alone-linux-box-402713/

    Seek and ye shall find, ask and it takes a while.

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