Writing terminal command to be executed at start up

[Nozzel]

Hello guys,

I have Ubuntu 9.10 and have a question for you.
Due to my Internet Service Provider complications, I need to change my Mac Address, I installed Macchanger program, so no problem there. But each time I turn off and turn on my computer, I need to repeat this steps, over and over again.

Opening up terminal (added it to Start up applications)
su
password
macchanger -r eth0 -m 00:*:*:*:*:*

Can I somehow write a script, for this to execute each time automatically, while Ubuntu loads? And what script it would be?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

All the best,
Nozzel

[Barriehie]

You've got at least 2 choices for doing this:

1) You can make a crontab entry with the &reboot entry
2) Actually have a script in /etc/init.d Only issue here might be if your OS checks for the script to be LSBINIT compliant.

Have to be root to save, make executable, and create symlinks.

In the terminal: (Applications > Accessories > Terminal)
gksu gedit /etc/init.d/changemymac # You'll prompted for password

Now copy/paste the below into gedit and save the file. Save = Ctrl S / Close = Ctrl W / Quit = Ctrl Q


#!/bin/bash
macchanger -r eth0 -m 00:*:*:*:*:*
exit 0Save that in /etc/init.d as changemymac ; should've already been done via gedit. Make it executable via the terminal with chmod +x /etc/init.d/changemymac

Now you have to create the links the system needs:


sudo update-rc.d changemymac defaultsThat should do it. To disable it see the manpage for update-rc.d, you can't just delete the file!

Have to reboot for it work!

HTH