Re: [CentOS] best way to start and shutdown programs in CentOS?

On Monday 22 November 2010 10:36:31 Brian Mathis wrote:

It may be tempting to use the rc.local, but that's the quick and dirty way and not good for the long-term sustainability and management of a system. There's no way to individually control any service running from there, and no way to stop it on shutdown.

I totally agree. My suggestion was based on the assumption that the OP didn't have much system-administration experience and using rc.local was definitely the easiest way out.

I should have warned him of the alternate correct method though...Fortunately he has been nicely informed by others.