Please read the instructions below... Should the kill and stratup scripts reside in the same run level... It makes no sense .... where should i put the kill script on Fedora? Starting BB at system boot Depending on U*X operation system version (Linux/BSD/Solaris/...) your startup procedures will vary from OS to OS. In short, you have to create a startup script that has a start/stop capabilities. Under a lot of OSes, you'll want to create your script in the init.d directory and create an S89bb link in rc3.d that links to init.d/S89bb (you may also want to create a K11bb link in rc3.d that'll be used when the system shuts down). Use an existing startup script has an example and substitute with these commands: To start BB, use this command: su - <bbuser> -c "cd <BBHOME>;./runbb.sh start" or su - <bbuser> -c "cd <BBHOME>;./runbb.sh restart" To stop BB, use this command: su - <bbuser> -c "cd <BBHOME>;./runbb.sh stop" <bbuser> is the user that BB will execute has make sure that bbuser has all permissions under BBHOME <BBHOME> is the location of your BB install e.g. su - bb -c "cd /home/bb;./runbb.sh start"