There's an rc.sysvinit in /etc/rc.d on Slackware, specifically to run scripts written for system V. It might work for what you need. Here's the comment at the head of it: # rc.sysvinit This file provides basic compatibility with SystemV style # startup scripts. The SystemV style init system places # start/stop scripts for each runlevel into directories such as # /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/ (for runlevel 3) instead of starting them # from /etc/rc.d/rc.M. This makes for a lot more init scripts, # and a more complicated execution path to follow through if # something goes wrong. For this reason, Slackware has always # used the traditional BSD style init script layout. # # However, many binary packages exist that install SystemV # init scripts. With rc.sysvinit in place, most well-written # startup scripts will work. This is primarily intended to # support commercial software, though, and probably shouldn't # be considered bug free. # -- Michael Vieths Foeclan at Visi.com B_o_B wrote: >Saturday, March 15, 2003 @ 12:44:54 AM Central Standard Time > >Hello, and a good day to you all. I have been setting up the >Postfix-Cyrus-Web-cyradm-HOWTO from the Linux Docs Project on a >Slackware 8.1 box. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Postfix-Cyrus-Web-cyradm-HOWTO.html > >The instructions are based on using Red Hat & Suse. > >I am stumped when the instructions reference having services >automatically start at boot time. > >example: > >You may wish to start MySQL automatically at boottime, copy >/usr/local/mysql/share/mysql/mysql.server to /etc/init.d/ for SuSE, for Redhat it is /etc/rc.d/init.d instead of /etc/init.d/. Further you need to add symbolic links to /etc/init.d/rc3.d for SuSE and /etc/rc.d/rc3.d for Redhat. > >SuSe - /etc.init.d >redhat - /etc/rc.d/init.d >slackware - /etc/rc.d ????? >--- >Suse - /etc/init.d/rc3.d/ >redhat - /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/ >slackware - /etc/rc.d ????? > >also would the symbolic links also be put in /etc/rc.d ???? > >Anyone familiar with Slackware, I appreciate the help. > >Many Thanks, > >Robert (aka B_o_B) David Felix De Mars >West Longitude 90' 15' 43" >http://b-o-b.homelinux.com >mailto:chewbaka at toughguy.net > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list