rc and startup

Toby Kelsey toby_kelsey at ntlworld.com
Tue May 24 10:46:46 UTC 2005


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 :)

Tony Arnold wrote:

> 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.

This web page <http://www.marzocca.net/linux/ubmdocs.html> also gives a
quick overview of boot scripts and runlevels.  If you write your own script, it
should be able to take a command-line argument of 'start', 'stop' and 'restart'
(optionally 'status').

Toby




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