how to start and run a command during boot

I have etch and a ppp connection I want to make ppp connection every time Debian boot That is, run “pon” during boot What is the proper way to do that? Thanks!

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  1. for a ppp conection ‘wvdial’ does this.

  2. Hugo Vanwoerkom

    Liam O’Toole wrote:

    I wouldn’t mess with rc.local in this particular case. ‘man interfaces’ is correct but hard on the eyes, so to say. Googling ‘interfaces linux’ I found http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/setting-up-an-network-interfaces-file/ that is a little easier to read.

    Hugo

  3. Greg Madden wrote:

    Not very well, it doesn’t. I suggest creating a simple init script in /etc/init.d that calls pppd, and then set up a chat script.

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