[Wolves] Firestarter

David Morley davmor2 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 1 17:21:07 BST 2005


Thanks David but what script this is the bit I really don't know.

On 01/09/05, David Goodwin <dg at clocksoft.com> wrote:
> David Morley wrote:
> > Okay Aq your asuming a lot here.  1) I'm using Ubuntu 2) I have no
> > idea on how to put in system startup files in /etc/init.d 3)  this is
> > why I come to the lug/list to learn this knida stuff.
> >
> 
> 
> 1) Login as per normal
> 
> 2) Go to Applications -> System -> New Terminal
> 
> 3) Type into the box : "sudo /bin/bash" (then press <enter>)
> (This makes you 'root', the super user)
> 
> 4) Copy the script to /etc/init.d/, e.g. Type in : cp
> /home/david/the_script /etc/init.d   (then press <enter>)
> 
> 5) Type in : update-rc.d the_script start 99 2 .    (then press <enter>)
> (This does some magic by creating a symbolic link in /etc/rc2.d to point
> to /etc/init.d/the_script. The 99 refers to it's order in the startup
> process, so it will be near last. 2 refers to the runlevel - 2 is the
> default in Debian/Ubuntu. (It's 5 in Redhat and friends))
> 
> 6) It should print some stuff back to you.... and you should see there
> is now a file in /etc/rc2.d/ called S99the_script.
> 
> e.g. ls -l /etc/rc2.d/S99the_script    (then press <enter>)
> 
> 7) Go to bed.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> David.
> 
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