On Wednesday 27 October 2004 10:23, Bill Matthews wrote: >Hello. New linux user here. Downloaded/installed Fedora FC2. No >problems, I was amazed! > >I have a lot of Windows experience, and some Solaris. > >I installed the server version of Fedora. I setup and have working >sendmail, vsftpd, httpd, etc. > >But I noticed they dont start at boot. I start them manually. From >my solaris days I know I can start them with /etc/rc3.d/Swhatever >start. I've also learned from this mailing list that I can start > them with the command 'service whatever start'. > >But how do I get them to load at boot? In Solaris, the existance of >the S script in /etc/rc3.d was enough. But that doesnt seem to do > it here? > >thx, >BM Generally speaking, the /etc/rc3.d/Swhatever is not a script, but a softlink to the real one in /etc/rc.d/init.d. ls will show if the links are good. If it is good, but is not running, is there some error thats causing a premature exit of /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.28% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
