Hi, On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 08:51 +0100, Michel van Deventer wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 09:46 +0200, Roland Roland wrote: > > Hello, > > > > i have a certain issue at hand that i'm trying to solve. > > > > there's a certain command that i need to execute 10 minutes after boot. > > how can i set that? im not very expert with cron jobs but can it be done > > that way? i know that cronjob works on specified time but how can i set > > it to run with '10 min after startup" as a condition ? > There's no such option in cron. But the easiest way to do this is to put > it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local like this : > > sleep 600 && <command> > > this waits 600 seconds and (if succesfully) executes your command And (of course) slows down bootup :) Better put the sleep 600 in your script and start the script detached from /etc/rc.d/rc.local (with an & ) Regards, Michel