B_o_B wrote: > 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. most distros use SystemV style init scripts, thus the /etc/init.d directory (scripts actually live there) and the /etc/rc?.d directories just contain start or stop symlinks. the idea is things are more orderly started and shutdown, and you can re-run scripts as needed to stop/re-start a service. Slackware uses BSD style boot scripts. all scripts live in /etc/rc.d. all you have to do is create your start/stop scripts there and just call them from /etc/rc.d/rc.local. Most of slackware's rc scripts support start and stop arguments now so you can rerun them as needed to restart a service. there's a pretty good description of how this all works on the slackware site: http://slackware.com/config/init.php If you need more help, email me off list. -- scot _______________________________________________ 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