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I want to run a script on startup that will perform some work and then
shut the machine down.  My script looks something like this:

#!/bin/sh

# do some stuff

shutdown -h now



Where should I place this script?  I want it to run after entering
multi-user mode and I would like it to run as root.




Ryan Turner
ryturner@vt.edu


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