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Title: starting a programe at startup
Post by: Steve on August 11, 2001, 02:41:27 PM

Hi All
       Hope someone can help me here, i have installed arkeia backup and it works well, the only problem is that the NLSERVD server does'nt start at startup it has to be loaded manually. I have read through the customization page loads of times but i cant seem to get to grips with how to do this.
Can someone please shed some light on this matter, or point me in the right direction. any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks.

          Steve.

Title: Re: starting a programe at startup
Post by: Confucius on August 11, 2001, 03:28:30 PM

Have you tried it already with /etc/rc.local ???

Place your commands in the end and it will work for most things. Used it for HylaFax because it didn't wanted to start either on me. Now it works perfect and shows lovely after SMB on startup.

GoodLk

Title: Re: starting a programe at startup
Post by: Les Mikesell on August 15, 2001, 10:58:36 AM

Note that e-smith changes the default runlevel to 7, where most Linux distributions use runlevel 3 and RedHat RPMs install the startup links there.  Normally the 'real' copy of a startup script is installed in /etc/rc.d/init.d and a symlink with a name starting with 'S' is added to /etc/rc.d/rc?.d (where ? is the runlevel) to make a program automatically start up.   If you install a RedHat RPM you will probably have to duplicate the symlink it places in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d into /etc/rc.d/rc7.d.