How to start program automaticaly at the boot time

[180990]

How do I start program automatically at the boot time.
I have installed software on my server which requires
a process to be started automatically at the boot of my
server. What do I have to do in order for this to work?

Thanks for any help

 

[dabit]

You must create or edit the profile or .profile on your home directory. So everytime you login with your user name it will be read and executed.

Hope it works...

 

[teddy74]

Hi

You got to create a startup script and place it in the appropriate runlevel directory , u will also have to create an entry in the "/etc/inittab" file for the default runlevel , u can refer to some good unix documentations or unix books for this , u can try docs.sun.com , all the best !
rajesh

 

[edfair]

You can start it in rc.d in userdef in directory 8 i believe it is. Anyhow this is the startup sequence for multiuser. Pulling location from memory, but definite about the 8.

Ed Fair
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[abovebrd]

Actually I think user defined startup scripts should go in
/etc/rc2.d

(That could be different if you should a different run level
On openserver 5 it would be /etc/rc2.d)



-Danny

 

[dabit]

Hi,

I think you should edit the /etc/inittab file. There you can add the program you want to be executed during start-up. Take note that before you edit it, make a another copy of the original file, so that if your scripts does not work you can easily restore the inittab.

hope it wokrs