auto-starting daemons on startup

[Chaz]

On Monday, May 20, 2002, at 08:17 PM, Robert Brandtjen wrote:

> On Monday 20 May 2002 06:19 pm, Chaz wrote:
>>         I have a certain server that I would like to start 
>> automatically on
>> startup, but I'm not sure how this is done.  I'm not much of a
>> Linux-head.  I don't know much about inetd or xinetd or really how
>> services work.  Can somebody please explain the process?
>
> It would help if you told us what it was, then we could tell you if the 
> script
> is there or you need to make one - which is easy enough to do.

There is not a script, and it's not a common server.  I noticed someone 
else posted something close to what this is about, but could someone 
just explain the process of creating the script and everything else to 
get a daemon started on startup?

- Chaz