A quick and dirty approach that may work is creating a cron job for root
that uses the @reboot syntax

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-execute-cron-job-after-system-reboot/

The more proper approach would be writing an init script but obviously
that's more involved.


On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Olwe Bottorff <galanolwe at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I've installed via apt-get an app that controls the cpu fan (thinkfan).
> Now I'd like /usr/sbin/thinkfan to run at bootup without me having to start
> it by hand at the command line. As I understand, it takes root privilege,
> i.e., at the command like I start it with >sudo /usr/sbin/thinkfan
>
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