[SOLVED] How do I start scripts at boot up?

I've been looking around for awhile and can't find a way to auto-start scripts I've written in the console (the only ways I've found are for older systems using /etc/rc.local, but my system doesn't have this file. The only things I've found for systemd are about starting daemons. I'm not running a desktop environment on this system nor do I plan to (I'm using this machine as a server), so I can't put the scripts in a directory that auto-starts them like I can in KDE (and even then, I think that's only auto-starting them after login; I need these scripts to run without need of logging in). And since my scripts aren't services I can't use "systemctl enable" to make them start at bootup.
Does anyone know how to start scripts when the system boots?
Last edited by Zukaro (2013-01-10 23:02:22)

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