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. -- Jorge