On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Jianping Zhu wrote: > > i have a proftpd. now i have to type proftpd to start this service. i > want to start it at server startup. how can i do that? > os: redhat9.0 > > thanks > jp > edit the file /etc/rc.local In this file you can put whatever command you want the kernel to execute at startup. Rahul.