Why isn't /etc/rc.local executed when I log in?

Question

I'm trying to run a script at login, and this is the way I've found to do it.

I'ved edited /etc/rc.local with a line such as bash /home/me/script.sh.

I've made that script executable.

It doesn't seem that my command is being executed upon login. What steps could I take to debug this?

My distro is Linux Mint 12 running Gnome.

Answer 1

/etc/rc.local is executed at boot, not during login. If you want to run something at login, you'd normally put it in ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile. For GUI applications, Gnome has a Startup Applications tool.

Or did you mean "boot" when you said "login"?