From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Olszewski Subject: Re: automatic service start at startup Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:09:20 -0700 Message-ID: <44B2A5E0.5080700@comarre.com> References: <44B2A02F.5040304@laposte.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <44B2A02F.5040304@laposte.net> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org ali shahrokni wrote: > Hello all, > I am wondering how I can run "autofs start " automatically at startup of > my system, so that I can log on to the network directly. > I would appreciate any hints. The *exact* answer to this is a bit distro dependent, and you don't say what distro you are running. The *general* answer is that you add it (an autofs start script) to the set of scripts that will be run when the system inits. The phrasing "autofs start" usually goes with the sort of init script setup that has something like (as I say, the details vary slightly among distros): a script called /etc/init.d/autofs a symlink to it called something like /etc/rc2.d/S45autofs The script is run by init (indirectly; it is actually run by the "primary" init script named in /etc/inittab ... assuming. of course, the your system defaults to runlevel 2 -- otherwise you need a different symlink) and it (not autofs itself) knows the meaning of the "start" switch and will do all the hoo-hah needed to start the daemon correctly. There are probably still some distros around (Slackware, perhaps?) that don't use this for of init-script nesting. In that case, you'll need to create a short script, or perhaps add some lines to /wherever-your-distro-puts-it/rclocal to start the daemon. I don't have autofs running here, so this is just an approximate answer ... really, just an example of answering the general question "How do I use init to start daemons?". But it should serve to get you started. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs