auto-starting daemons on startup

[Matthew 'Fringe' Duhan]

man ln to learn how to create symbolic links (aliases).
ln -s target name

for example:
ln -s ../init.d/httpd S85httpd

Hope this helps,
Matt

On Thu, 23 May 2002, Chaz wrote:
>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.
>
>[clip]
>
>> --
>> rshapiro@bbn.com
>
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