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  From: Glen Turner <glen.turner@adelaide.edu.au>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 00:40:24 +0000

Re: Boot

Robyn Manning wrote:
> 
> How do I edit the list of "programs"? run on booting Linux?

chkconfig is a simple way that should work on most distributions.

  chkconfig --list syslog
  syslog 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

shows that the syslog (system logger) facility is started
in run levels 2, 3, 4 and 5.

The run levels are (from comments in /etc/inittab):
#   0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#   1 - Single user mode
#   2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
#   3 - Full multiuser mode
#   4 - unused
#   5 - X11
#   6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)

So to make facility xx work we do:

  chkconfig --add xx
  chkconfig xx on

Which relies on a file /etc/rc.d/init.d/xx, or /sbin/init.d/xx, depending
on your distribution.

If you don't have one of these files then you can add a line to
/etc/rc.d/rc.local to start the program manually, but this
never works as well as you hope.

There are also graphical tools, but ironically, they lack
the ease of use of chkconfig.

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 Glen Turner                               Network Specialist
 Tel: (08) 8303 3936          Information Technology Services
 Fax: (08) 8303 4400         The University of Adelaide  5005
 Email: glen.turner@adelaide.edu.au           South Australia

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