adding command to startup

[Matt Cahill]

Howdy all,

  A while ago, I found that I needed to do 'xhost +' to allow myself to log-in 
as root and run certain apps like Synaptic.  It turned out, in the ensuing 
discussion, that 'xhost +' isn't exactly the most secure command in the 
world, and I found that 'xauth merge /home/matt/.Xauthority' did the trick 
better (or so I'm led to believe).  Problem is, I'm not sure how to add this 
to the startup routine.  I tried adding it to /etc/init.d, but it's not 
recognized.  So my question is:  do I append an existing start-up script, or 
is there a way to register a start-up script of my own so that my system 
recognizes it?

  Many thanks,

Matt

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