[olug] SuSE 9.0 proc question

Jake Churchill jachurchill at cox.net
Thu May 20 00:48:42 UTC 2004


I have suse 9.0 installed on my system and it does not come with an FTP 
server as far as I could tell.  So, I downloaded ProFTP, installed it, 
and configured it how I want it.  It works fine, just how I want.  The 
problem I have is that it doesn't start automatically with the system.  
I copied the proftpd to /etc/init.d/ thinking that it would start it 
like it starts all the other daemons.  That's where all the other 
daemons are on my system.  When I call startproc proftpd it is fine and 
works perfectly.  I looked online and it said that I needed to edit my 
rc.d files but I think it was talking about an older system because on 
mine, there are tons of files and online it made it sound like there 
should be just 1.

So, how do I make a service that was not included in the system, start 
with the system?  I don't want to have a script run at startup if I can 
avoid it.  If that's the only way, then explain that cuz I've never 
done that either.

Thanks for any help!

jake



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