On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Paul Rogers wrote: > > I'd like to run the daemon on start up. Where would the command go? > If you got dhcp via an rpm then a script, called dhcpd, should have been installed in /etc/rc.d/init.d. Also, the appropriate links shoudl have also been created in the rcx.d directories. > I also have to issue the following to allow W95 clients to request IP > addresses. > > route add -host 255.255.255.255 dev eth0 > > Does this need to be issued every time the machine starts and is it > possible to automate this? Yes it must be done at every reboot. I added it to the dhcpd script. > > Should all the other files go in specific directories such as /sbin etc? > Is there some sort of convention for this? > Yes, /sbin and /usr/man > > > Is it ok to do this manually? > Yes > > > Is it possible, in future, to get tar to do this automatically. > No, but use an RPM instead, see http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM > > Claude
