Script in init.d

⇐ Additional Configuration

1. Create a script in the /etc/init.d directory.

below is for a script named blah which should be owned by root with ACL of 755

The script requires a init script LSB header of the form

### BEGIN INIT INFO

# Provides: blah

# Required-Start: $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog $named

# Required-Stop: $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog $named

# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5

# Default-Stop: 0 1 6

# X-Interactive: true

# Short-Description: provides blah

# Description: longer multiline description

### END INIT INFO

2. Enable script bt running

$ sudo update-rc.d blah defaults