Linux in general offers great flexibility as a system. With that flexibility however, can come confusion. For example, how does one run a program when the system starts? Specifically, how does a user (meaning, not root) do this? Recently a Debian Developer wondered the same. He proposed a per-user init sequence that would start these programs. The answer, though, was much simpler: use cron. As Colin Watson put it How about using @reboot lines in users’ crontabs instead?
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