A.P. Lawrence

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Jim Richardson enscribed:
| In article <388528F8.96E7A8F6@drexel.edu>,
|   ajb27 <ajb27@drexel.edu> wrote:
| > I've been designated the acting Unix Administrator until my employer
| > can hire one.  Although I have used UNIX for many years, I'm not at
| the
| > level as an administrator.  The responsibilities I have now are
| rudimentary:
| > make sure the backups occur, kill occasional processes, create new
| > accounts.
| >
| > I've been approached my boss to try to get a unix command to load
| > whenever the system is rebooted.  The command is "sink" and it should
| run
| > in the background. For the Windows world, this is tantamount to
| > placing commands in config.sys, autoexec.bat, even startup folder
| Win95+.  I'm
| > rather comfortable editing the startup file, as long as this doesn't
| disrupt
| > other operations.
| >
| > Surely there is a way to get this to work in Sco-Unix. If someone
| > could please point me in the right direction, I would be very
| grateful.
| >
| > Thanks in advance.  Please reply by email as well as posting.
| >
| > ajb
| >
| 
| I'm not familar with 'sink'.  Is it a program that you can describe?
| There is the unix command 'sync' which flushes the buffers to disk.
| It's usually run during a shutdown procedure to make sure all the writes
| have completed, but it would do little effective on boot, and runns only
| once so there's no need for it to be a background process.
| 
| If you want to run a command at startup, create a file in /etc/rc2.d
| called S99sink.  In the file place the fully qualified pathname to the
| command.  Note that the S is a capital.
| 
| If that's not exactly what you need, please post exactly what you're
| trying to do and I'm sure some of the more qualified folks will have an
| answer for you.

A quick "man sink" might make one wonder what they are trying to
accomplish. 
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 Tom Parsons            tom@tegan.com          
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