[H-GEN] starting servers

[Shaun Nykvist]

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Thanks to all who replied to my plea for help about this topic.  I now have 
it running automatically at boot

Cheers
Shaun

At 06:35 PM 31/05/2002 +1000, you wrote:
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>At 10:31 31/05/2002 +1000, you wrote:
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>>Hi all
>>
>>I have been toying with debian over the past weeks (quite impressive 
>>too), however, I am needing to automatically start an enCore server on 
>>the machine at boot.  Currently, I manually start the server from a 
>>directory called /usr/local/moo with the command ./restart enCore.  In 
>>the past I have used a redhat server and placed the relevant commands 
>>within /etc/rc.d/rc.local.  Any help in this matter would be appreciated 
>>as we are currently having a few power problems which brings the server 
>>down for a period of time.
>
>the way i do it is like this.
>in /etc/init.d/ there is a file called skeleton.
>cp skeleton mydaemon
>then use your favourite editor to open the file. change the first few 
>lines of code (prolly about 5 or 6 lines into the file) to be what you 
>want it to be.
>then u can /etc/init.d/mydaemon start [or stop or restart]
>if you want it to start automatically on boot, put a symlink in /etc/rc2.d 
>[i think, been a while since i did this] but make sure the symlink points 
>to the full path of the mydaemon file, ie /etc/init.d/mydaemon
>
>maybe i just like to do things the hard way, but i find this is a nice 
>learning experience and you get full control over what starts when and 
>where from.
>
>Sandra.
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