rc and startup

Tony Arnold tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk
Tue May 24 08:30:46 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 10:11 +0200, Isak Holmström wrote:

> Would someone please explain the startup procedure in Ubuntu to me? How
> do I remove certain apps from being started at boot without getting the
> error "Could not execute". And how do I add my own scripts at boot?
> If anyone could explain this to me I'd be happy :)

Take a look at the man page for update-rc.d utility. This is probably
the easiest way of adding/removing stuff from the startup.

Regards,
Tony.
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