:About.com: Calling Commands When Booting [init script]
About.com: Calling Commands When Booting [init script] Jul 29, 2000, 12 :06 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (4317 reads) (Other stories by Aron Hsiao)
"If you find yourself needing to run a certain command or series of commands each
time you start your Linux system, you can often automate the process by editing the
local init script, usually located at /etc/rc.d/rc.local or somewhere
similar."
"Once you've found it, treat it like any shell script if it's a file,
because that's what it is -- a shell script that's run once each time
your system boots into multiuser mode. If it's a directory, any scripts that you create
there will be run during boot."
