When Ubuntu starts-up?

[GaryT]

Siggy Brentrup wrote:

>> On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 12:20 +1000, GaryT wrote:
>> Is there an equivalent to the MS Windows registry, tucked away somewhere in Ubuntu?

> Luckily not, the non GUI stuff is in human readable form.
> Have a look at /etc/inittab and /etc/rc* . You may need to
> read some manpages to understand what's going on.

I think not so lucky, Siggy, but I accept what we have. :-)

Already I had searched through procs, and spent time looking in that
area...  but you've helped widen the search.  Many thanks.
It's all good learning material (after many years of Windows)

Greatly appreciated
GT