Proper way to start a program at log-on

[Gerard Seibert]

Since I am still new to this OS, I thought that I would check to make sure 
that I am doing this correctly.

On my WinXP machine, I run the Distributed Net 'dnetc' program. Further 
information regarding this program is available here: 
http://www.distributed.net//docs/tutor_clients.php.

To start the program in the background I need to issue the following 
command: 'dnetc -quiet'. Since I want to start this program automatically 
each time I log on, I placed that command at the end of my '.bash_profile' 
file. I then placed the shutdown command 'dnetc -shutdown' in the 
'/etc/rc.shutdown' file.

Since everything seems to be workings correctly, I assume that I have done 
this correctly. If there is a better way to do this, I would appreciate 
receiving the information.

Thanks!

Gerard E. Seibert
gerard-seibert at rcn.com