How to delay a service for 30 mins?

[klepto]

Hey peeps,

I would love to know how to keep IO hogging services like Crashplan delayed for a while so my boot up is smooth and problem free.

Thanks for all the help.

[tgalati4]

Where is crashplan called from? Open a terminal and post:

cat /etc/crontab

If it is a service that is called during a bootup script, then you will either have to modify the script, or if it is a compiled binary, then you will have to write to the authors and have them change it.

[klepto]

It's in /etc/init.d, so I have to modify the script.

[schragge]

Put something like this in /etc/init.d/crashplan

start)
      echo $SCRIPTNAME start >/dev/null | at now + 30 minutes 
      ;;

Add the blue part if you don't want to get an email each time crashplan starts.