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Hey

I am using sharity light for mounting my pc folders on my octane2, in shell i use a command like this:
/shar/shlight //192.168.0.198 /sgishared /pcshared -f 777 -d 777 -n
And it works great!

However, currently i have to login as root to do this manually each time, so, how do i add this to the boot sequence?
Is there a file somewhere that i could just add this text and then it would run automatic next time it boots up?

/etc/fstab does not seem to do it btw!

Any help is greatly appreciated

how about put in /etc/cshrc and /etc/profile?

you know this? cause these files look like script files..
how do i know where to put this command, and will it need a "run" or "start" command infront of it?
i really have no clue myself...

but i think it should be ALOT easier than this...afterall its one simple command to write in shell...
is there no "autoexec.bat" type of file somewhere that would be able to run this simple command as a root-user at the end of the boot sequence?

Its called run level scripts.

Try to learn the first thing about UNIX. First the firmware of the machine loads a kernel file, the kernel file loads and runs init, init fork()s itself and runs deamon processes in the run level scripts...
Each exec is basically a fork so the init process is the parent of everything.

This is basic basic UNIX concepts.
http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi ... /ch03.html

Here is what you do with your limited knowledge, stick the commands in one of the run level directories, get sick of the machine and stick in the cupboard for a couple years, then take it out and give it to someone who doesn't have the same network and the and thus the share your are trying to automount won't exist on the network so the machine hangs like 5 minutes or longer at boot and thus is "broken".

R.

Ha ha good one Regan, zing!

The brief and expurgated version is that the Irix bootup scripts are located in the /etc/init.d directory. Proper Unix etiquette would be to have a script named "local" (or some such, in Linux it's rc.local for example) that you would put commands specific your machine, although I don't think it would hurt anything if you put them in network (the file, er, shell script named "network"), as that is where Irix tends to all of it's NFS duties already...

hi lars! yes i know about this files coz i put some path variable setting there and for you, you just put the same line of command of what you put on the command prompt to mount the directory coz the script can contain raw unix commands? but i think for this kind of task you should heed what PS and vishnu advice to follow proper unix etiquette to avoid future mess

Lars, perhaps my old page can help you get a grounding in things:

http://www.sgidepot.co.uk/admin/

Ian.