One thing that is more idiomatic and distribution specific than most is the way that different *nix's handle starting services at boot time
There are two main flavors: System V - used by debian and Redhat(sort of) BSD - used by OpenBSD,freebsd, slackware on system V style systems your startup scripts live in /etc/init.d/ and you use a script to symlink to them from the rc#.d directories where # is the number of the runlevel (on most sane systems runlevel 1 is single user runlevel 2,3,4,5 are production, 6 is reboot and 0 is shutdown, but sanity is a choice) on BSD style systems it's the /etc/rc.* scripts and your startup scripts belong in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ -- http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi) _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
