Thanks for the great suggestions. This 'chkconfig' is a nice feature. I see that it makes the symbolic link very nicely. It uses S85. Okay. Fair enough. I still wonder why making the link manually doesn't work. I'm getting old! Thanks again. HEnry > Under FC1, my apache daemons are not starting up at boot time. > Originally, my link to the startup script was numbered > /etc/rc2.d/S90apache. > I tried as low as S78apache. > > With either of these numbers, the daemon won't start on its own. > > It starts just fine manually at a later time with a; > > ' /etc/rc2.d/S78apache start' > > I wonder why it's not starting. On my other systems, including solaris, > the S78 spot seems just fine. > > Details: > On this system, the level 2 startup scripts are: > > S00microcode_ctl > S08iptables > S09isdn (hmm, I don't need this!) > S10network > S12syslog > S20random > S26apmd > S40smartd > S55cups > S55sshd > S78apache > S85gpm > S90crond > S90xfs > S90anacron > S99local > --------------- > > Thanks, > Henry > >