john.janmaat@acadiau.ca wrote:

I am trying to set up a script to automatically back up my system whenever it is booted and connected to the network. The backup is onto a network drive, so networking must first be activated. The commands in boot.local are executed before eth0 is activated. What is the order of script education?

You've encountered what seems to be a flaw in the design of the init.d bootup (and shutdown) procedures, but there are ways around it. The problem is that boot.local is executed first and there's no built-in "endboot.local" that's executed last. But you can create one, put it in the init.d directory, and point to it with symlinks such as S99endboot.local (look at the structure of /etc/init.d and the README to understand what this is all about). Paul Abrahams