Wow thanks everybody that was an awesome explanation. I'm not using a GUI, so chkconfig is the piece I was missing. I understand it now, and I've turned on the services I want via chkconfig. Also thanks for the explanation of runlevels as opposed to how Solaris handles them. One additional question. I want to add a new service. I have a network monitoring tool that I want to run at startup (BigBrother). I read the man pages of chkconfig, and it doesn't provide a lot of detail on how to add a new service. chkconfig --add is easy, but I'm not sure what scripts it would need. Any advice on how to add a new service? Or I suppose I could just create a script in the appropriate /etc/rc directory. Thanks!!!!!!!!!
