[PLUG] rc startup script question

[Wil Cooley]

On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 16:08, Vincent Yau wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I am running Fedora RC2 2.6.6 kernel.
> It was my understanding (from other Unix flavors)
> that when I want to add new stuff to be started at boot time,
> I put in a script in /etc/init.d and then symlink
> from /etc/rc<level>.d/
> 
> I just did, and symlink from /etc/rc3.d, /etc/rc2.d and /etc/rc4.d
> And then to verify, I typed
> 
>     /etc/rc 3
> 
> and my stuff did get started.
> So just did a reboot but none of my stuff was started...
> 
> Did I miss a step?  Why is it that I ran /etc/rc and the stuff was started
> but not when I power reboot the box?

On Red Hat/Fedora, you can save yourself the pain of manually managing
those symlinks with the 'chkconfig' command.  Are you booting into a
graphical login?  If so that's runlevel 5, which you didn't mention
making a link for.

Wil
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