/etc/init.d

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, stan wrote:

> A quick question. On 10.04, if I add a package that is _not_ from the
> Ubuntu respoitries, can I just put it's startup script in /etc/init.d, and
> expect thisngs to get started up on system boot? Or is there more I need to
> do/
>
> For instance, what control what runleves it is satrted and stoped at?

  what you probably want is the update-rc.d command, which automates a
lot of what you want.

rday

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