GIDBlogAfter I “upgraded” Fedora (to Fedora 19) on my main PC recently, I only had one other essential post-installation task to complete before I could get back to my regular programming on this machine. I just had to install the pecl_http PHP extension next.
A couple of days ago, I “upgraded” Fedora on my main PC and everything seemed to be working really well until I tried to set up a local development version of one of my sites back on the machine.
If, like me, you want to easily have some program start every time you boot up your Linux server, you need to find and edit the rc.local file in your file-system. /etc/rc.local is really a simple place to put shell commands and/or scripts you want to run when booting up.