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TonyGroves
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What distribution are you using?
The manual way to do it (and the way I'd do it in Debian) is to put links to the program in /etc/rcn.d/ , where n is each runlevel number in which you want the program to run. For example, you might put a link called S99myprog in /etc/rc2.d, /etc/rc3.d, /etc/rc4.d, and /etc/rc5.d.
However, runlevels vary according to the distro; you would need to check what your distro uses. You might also be better off following your distro's standard procedures for installing daemons.
The manual way to do it (and the way I'd do it in Debian) is to put links to the program in /etc/rcn.d/ , where n is each runlevel number in which you want the program to run. For example, you might put a link called S99myprog in /etc/rc2.d, /etc/rc3.d, /etc/rc4.d, and /etc/rc5.d.
However, runlevels vary according to the distro; you would need to check what your distro uses. You might also be better off following your distro's standard procedures for installing daemons.
Annihilannic
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There's a good example of a service startup script in this thread, even though it wasn't the answer for that particular thread.
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Redhat and its derivative distributions use "chkconfig" to manage this.
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