Re: [cobalt-users] Re:Email Advice after reboot

[Revd leonard payne <vicarage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 22/2/02 9:43 pm, Charlie Summers at charlie@xxxxxxxxxx mumbled something
like:

> At the bottom of /etc/rc.d/rc.local you can call a shell or perl script to
> send you the email.
> 
> But _here's_ a novel idea...why don't you just put those "pesky tasks"
> down there instead of sending yourself mail, so you DON'T HAVE TO DO IT
> MANUALLY IN THE FIRST PLACE! In the case of the RealServer, for example, just
> add:
> 
> # Basic RealAudio Server...
> cd /usr/bin/RealServer
> Bin/rmserver rmserver.cfg &
> 


Thanks Charlie -The reason I didn't do this originally was I tried it before
and it didnt work and I guessed that one needed to be logged on as root
and then run the commands manually.

So I tried it again and lo ... and behold ... deep joy

Thanks and Blessings

Revd Leonard