Starting a service at bootup

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 31 Jan 2006 11:40, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > 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.
>
> However, for this to work you need to add a special header to the
> file in /etc/init.d specifying at what run levels and in what order
> you want the script to run. Look at other files in this directory to
> see examples of the header lines you need to add.
>
OK - thanks, Aaron.

Anne
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