Les Mikesell wrote: > The RedHat/Centos way of doing things is to have init scripts in > /etc/rc.d/init.d that take at least start, stop, and restart as arguments for > each program that should start automatically. Then for the runlevels where you > want them to start you have a symlink where the name starts with S and the rest > is a number to make it sort alphabetically into the order that things should > start in /etc/rc?.d (where the ? is the runlevel). Likewise add links starting > with 'K' in the levels where the process should be stopped. There is a > convention for comments in the scripts so that 'checkconfig program on' can make > the links for you. Look through some of the other scripts to see how they work. Sorry for the stupid question here, but does the /etc/initd./scriptname file "know" about these symlinks because of a particular comment in there? Where and how is the best way to make these symlinks once you have the "correct" file configuration.