Getting source installed services to work with chkconfig.

Longman, Bill yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Mon, 2 Aug 2004 14:44:08 -0700


> When I install something like apache or Snort from source, I was 
> wondering what I have to do to get it configured where I can just use 
> chkconfig to manage whether or not it starts up?

Just write an init script (copy a similar one from /etc/init.d) and save it
in /etc/init.d. Then, you can just "chkconfig --add yournewscript" and it
will run.