automatic service start at startup

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.
Thanks,
Ali
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Re: automatic service start at startup

Hi Ali,

On 7/11/06, 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.

Hint : if bash shell, .bashrc, .bash_profile.


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Re: automatic service start at startup

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.

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Re: automatic service start at startup

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.

It depends on distro you are using. The easiest way (though not the best
I think) is to add an entry into "rc.local" file (I think you should
find somewhere in /etc subdirectories, because it depends on distro).
Second way is to use special tool to add service to startup, for example:

Gentoo: rc-update add autofs default
SUSE (at least SLES): user graphical application yast, and choose
Runlevel editor (i do not know the command line equivalent)
Red Hat(and fedora core, Mandrake too, I think...):
system-config-services (graphical tool), or chkconfig --add autofs
Ubuntu (i think debian too): tool rcconf

Arturas M.

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Re: automatic service start at startup

Thanks guys,
using your help, I could solve the problem the neat way: I just had to=20
set a higher number (99, instead of 19) to the symlink to autofs, in=20
rc2.d... I don't know exactly why it had to be higher, but now it works=
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fine! thanks!

ali

Artūras Moskvinas wrote:

>ali shahrokni wrote:
> =20
>
>>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.
>> =20
>>
>
>It depends on distro you are using. The easiest way (though not the be=
st
>I think) is to add an entry into "rc.local" file (I think you should
>find somewhere in /etc subdirectories, because it depends on distro).
>Second way is to use special tool to add service to startup, for examp=
le:
>
>Gentoo: rc-update add autofs default
>SUSE (at least SLES): user graphical application yast, and choose
>Runlevel editor (i do not know the command line equivalent)
>Red Hat(and fedora core, Mandrake too, I think...):
>system-config-services (graphical tool), or chkconfig --add autofs
>Ubuntu (i think debian too): tool rcconf
>
>Arturas M.
>
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Re: automatic service start at startup

debian. I tried rcconf, but it didn't change anything!


Om. wrote:

> On 7/11/06, ali shahrokni wrote:
>
>> Thanks guys,
>> using your help, I could solve the problem the neat way: I just had to
>> set a higher number (99, instead of 19) to the symlink to autofs, in
>> rc2.d... I don't know exactly why it had to be higher, but now it works
>> fine! thanks!
>
> Which distro are you using? If it is RH/FC,
> you can do
> # serviceconf &
> Using standard commands should be better else you may end up breaking
> something when you try to upgarde
> HTH,
> Om.
>

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