auto-starting daemons on startup
Chaz
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Mon May 20 23:24:13 2002
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