Thanks but far too scarey for me.

How about a delay?

It seems that if I put an & at the end of the line in init which calls my script it runs as a separate process (this is what I was told).

So if my thinking is correct, I can put a delay of some sort in the start of my script (call it then the original init) so that the netcat bit only happens after the player has started.

Is this right?

How do I delay for 5 secs in a script?

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