/etc/profile and cntlm question

I'm working behind a windows proxy server which requires ntlm. I configured cntlm and it works great as long as i manually run it as root. I tried putting it in /etc/profile and it doesn't run. any thoughts on how to make it run on system boot? thanks in advance, regards.

Daemons for all users to use are started under root at boot, e.g., : Man Page for RC (all Section 8) - The UNIX and Linux Forums