You could do it in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit or /etc/rc.d/rc.local, which get booted about half way through the boot process. Or do it in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S99<yourfile> which will get run at the end of the boot cycle. Best way to do it: a shell script that maintains a counter of the number of reboots you've done and quits the process at the end of the 100th. Cron won't work because it's not tied in to the reboot process and it doesn't have a way of keeping track of the number of times the script has been run. Mike -----Original Message----- From: Ahmed A [mailto:ahmedcali@yahoo.com] Sent: Tue 5/25/2004 12:39 PM To: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org Cc: Subject: Help on starting a process upon power up? Hi, Can someone please suggest a way to accomplish the following. (I am not necessarily looking for the answer, but pointer to the best approach to the following, suggestion of urls or books would be very helpful) Upon power up (at the end of power up), I would like to load some drivers that I have written. Test if the driver loaded successfully (I know how to do this). If successful, update a file (like a counter). Then reboot automatically. I would like to do this about 100 times. Do I need to use cron for this? If so, how and where do I place the code? Or do I just need to change the boot up script? If so, how and where? Thanks in advance, Ahmed. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ ÿòž®w¥ì‰ëÿ éiy§!¢Ø^®Wš®v›¢ëm…ââžìdz¹Þð+r¯{øm¶Ÿÿþf¢—ùåþX§» è®äz¹Þw°n'¬üPþm§ÿÿ‘êçzYÞÁž³ú+ƒ÷Ú
