[Initng] How to run a program on reboot

[Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto]

>
>
> > Slightly changing the topic, allow me to report what happened on my
> > Gentoo system.
> > I was reading the "TIP kexec" at the Gentoo Wiki, and it told me that I
> > had to issue /etc/init.d/kexec start.
> > It would load the kernel image, so the system could later reboot by
> > invoking said image.
> > I thought that /etc/init.d/kexec was a a shell script, so I thought that
> > I could execute it even though I was running initng. The result was
> > very, very weird: I saw messages in my xterm that made it seem like my
> > computer was being put in single mode (including the "Enter password for
> > maintenance" message). But X was still runnning! When I dismissed the
> > prompt to enter password (I don't remember now if I pressed ESC,
> > control-D or control-C), my computer rebooted, without umounting
> > partitions first.
> >
> > When I read the /etc/init.d/kexec script, I realized that the function I
> > called should not reboot the computer (it merely loaded the kernel
> > image, without invoking it). I then realized the #!/sbin/runscript at
> > the top.
> >
> > "Oh... this thing is not a shell script. This thing probably thought
> > that I was running under Sys V init and made something really crazy...".
> >
> > So nothing inside the script made the computer reboot. It was a weird
> > consequence of running a /etc/init.d script in a system that booted with
> > Initng.
> > Of course, I should not have called /etc/init.d/kexec start. My bad.
> > But can't we make the system fail in a more graceful manner than
> > rebooting, when a clueless user executes a script in /etc/init.d?
> >
>
> I'm not sure what the problem could be...
> do you have tried with other scripts?


No. Ill try later. (I'm busy now, and I'm afraid the computer will reboot if
I try...).

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