You may look at this <a href="http://unixlab.blogspot.com/2009/08/controlling-services-from-command-line.html">http://unixlab.blogspot.com/2009/08/controlling-services-from-command-line.html</a> Fermi <div class="gmail_quote"> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Fred Roller <<a href="mailto:froller@tnclimited.com">froller@tnclimited.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><div></div><div class="h5">Pete Clapham wrote: > Hi, all -- > > I have added an application to my Ubuntu Server 9.04, and I would like to make it start when the machine starts up. The start script is in init.d; it's "on" in chkconfig, but it doesn't start unless I manually start it. It would appear that I need to add it to the admin-services list, but the man file for that app is pretty thin, and I don't know how to do it. Can anybody advise? > > Thanks. > > cheers, > pete > > </div></div>add the start up script in /etc/rc.local This runs on the tail end of multi-user boot sequence. If you need the program to start at a specific place in the boot sequence then research a bit on the /etc/rc[0-6].d directories. Files in these directories control what comes up when during the boot sequence once grub hands off the system. -- Fred <a href="http://www.fwrgallery.com" target="_blank">www.fwrgallery.com</a> "Life is like linux, simple. If you are fighting it you are doing something wrong." -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- Fermi ----------------- <a href="http://unixlab.blogspot.com">http://unixlab.blogspot.com</a>