howto start something 5 mins after boot

From: Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:54:38 -0500

Hi,

With crontab you can start things any time or day, but not in a relative way, e.g. 5 minutes after boot run a script.

How would you do that?

Thanks!

H

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