auto-starting daemons on startup

[Chaz]

Thanks.  That's exactly what I needed.  One more thing, though.
In the rc#.d directories, there seems to be aliases that point to the 
scripts which are in init.d.  How do you create aliases?

- Chaz

On Tuesday, May 21, 2002, at 06:46 AM, R Shapiro wrote:

> Chaz writes:
>> 	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?
>
> As someone else already pointed out, there's a very good chance that
> whatever you think you have to add has already been provided for.  So
> you should tell us what you're planning to do here.  It's silly, and
> imo wrong, to add new init entries (or, worse, add things to rc.local)
> if whatever you want to do has already been provided for elsewhere.
>
> Having said that, I'll describe the process in some detail.

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