OT: Slackware: Starting Servers at Boot

[Waitman Gobble]

On Feb 2, 2012 1:09 PM, "Chris Maness" <chris at chrismaness.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Waitman Gobble <gobble.wa at gmail.com>
wrote:
> >
> > On Feb 2, 2012 12:22 PM, "Chris Maness" <chris at chrismaness.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I have been using FreeBSD for so long I forgot how to configure
> >> services and startup.  I now also have a Slack box.  What file do I
> >> edit to so that services like named start automagically?  I am aware
> >> lines can be uncommented in inetd.conf, but I want the service running
> >> without spawning from inetd.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Chris Maness
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> > hmm never tried slackware GNU/Linux but maybe
> > ntsysv
> > works?
>
> After more searching it turns out that all that one needs to do is
> make the rc.bind executable in the rc.d directory.  Wow, that is as
> straight forward as it comes.
>
> Chris

might be dated info but GNU/Linux usually has sep directory for each run
level, so you can have one "without X" for example. pretty sure ntsysv is a
front end to rc directories with toggle on-off executable bit