Starting a service at bootup

[Paul Howarth]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> I have installed popfile, which has a startup script in /etc/init.d.  At 
> the moment when I boot up I can start popfile running with 'service 
> popfile start'.
> 
> I want this to be an automatic startup but I've got a total blank on how 
> to achieve this.  Could someone please prompt me?  Thanks

If the initscript has been written to support chkconfig, then:

# chkconfig popfile on

should do the trick.

Try:

# chkconfig popfile --list

to see the startup status for each runlevel.

Paul.