how to run commands at boot time ?

[surfer]

Hi all,

I searched the forums but I could not find an answer there.
I want to run commands at boot time. I recently switched from slackware to kubuntu. In slackware there was the directory /etc/rc.d. which contained among many others also a rc.local file in which you could place your own commands.
I have been reading the debian guide on how to do this for debian.
I now have a z-commands file in /etc/init.d having my commands in there. In the rcS.d and all /etc/rcx.d sub directories I created a soft link S65z-commands to the z-commands file in /etc/init.d. The z-commands file is (off course) executable.
It looks like this:
======================
#! /bin/sh
#
# Author: Harry van der wolf
# Version: 1.0 29-Dec-2005

set -e

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DESC="My own settings"
SCRIPTNAME="z-commands"

case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting $DESC"
# As the smb mounts doesn't get mounted (??) from fstab, I do it here
# log_begin_msg "Mounting webshots"
/bin/mount -t smbfs -o username=guest,password= //192.168.144.125/webshots /media/webshots
# log_end_msg "Mounted webshots ??"
echo "."
;;
stop)
echo -n "Stopping $DESC: $NAME"
/bin/umount /media/webshots
echo "."
;;
*)
# echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}" >&2
echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop}" >&2
exit 1
;;
esac

exit 0
=================

When running it by hand it works, why not from the boot scripts ?
What am I doing wrong ?

Harry

[surfer]

Re: how to run commands at boot time ?

Solved.

I changed the S65z-commands shortlink to S95z-commands and now it works. I thought that after level S40 networking was working (as does the policy guide tells).

Bye

[ben_elliott]

Re: how to run commands at boot time ?

Oh, so this runs as your pc starts up and starts up webshots... is that the thing that changes your background and stuff like that?

benelliott