On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 12:00:05PM +1000, Ben Stringer wrote: > On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 00:56, Elvio Caruana wrote: > > Why not put it at the end of /etc/rc.local ? > > Because then it won't conform to the "service" interface, which allows > starting, stopping and checking the status of daemon processes. (I'd say > "see man service", but there doesn't seem to be a manpage for it). > > Init scripts also allow you to start and stop processes based on > runlevels, which can be very handy. > > Cheers, Ben just modify one of the startup script in /etc/init.d to start and stop the program you want to run. damn it man, how hard can that be;) jay
