auto-starting daemons on startup

[Chaz]

Actually, I think I am interesting in the Sys-V "treatment."  Unless of 
course you don't want to explain it.

- Chaz

On Monday, May 20, 2002, at 10:40 PM, Sam Moore wrote:

> If you know how to start your server from the command line, you can add 
> the same command to the file /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
> It's probably best to add your stuff at the end of the file.
> This file, which is a bash script, contains commands that are run after 
> all the more common servers and other processes are started. It is 
> usually used for your own custom startup thingies.
>
> If you're interested in the full-on Sys-V Init treatment, that's a 
> bigger topic...
>
>> 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