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From: Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: How to automagically run an application when entering runlevel S
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:37:00 +0000
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Josef Moellers <josef.moellers@ts.fujitsu.com> writes:

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> The application runs in runlevel S and when runlevel S was entered on
> the old image, /.profile was run and that contains a call to our
> application.
> On the new image, this does not happen!
> Unfortunately, the guy who built the old image is no more available.
> Does anyone have an idea where to tweak to run /.profile when entering
> runlevel S?

For sysvinit, a corresponding line could be added to /etc/inittab eg

	a0:1:wait:/.profile

in a suitable place (IOW below the entries executing rc scripts,
[untested]).