I loaded rcconf so I can set which programs I want to run at startup.
But I don't see some programs I want to run at startup, such as slocate. How do I add them to the startup files?

Also how do I add programs that I want to run when Windowmaker (my X windows manager) starts up....such as wmclock ?

Thanks,
Phil

See Section 2.4 at http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/re...ference.en.txt (you have to further populate your /etc/init.d and /etc/rc<R>.d directories, where <R> is the runlevel you choose to deal with).

slocate does not run on startup in the way you are thinking, it is not a service or daemon.
slocate is a cron process and can be located in your cron configuration.

if you want to manually update slocate so you can use it to search immediately, just kick off a manual update using the -u option

slocate -u

slocate will index your drive and update it's database, and you can use tit to do your searches right away. the update takes less than 30 seconds or so..

I would bet if you list the contents of your cron.daily directory slocate is listed..
ls /etc/cron.daily


and rather than rcconf, I would suggest looking at it's replacement sysv-rc-conf, quite a bit more control in the new package.

apt-get install sysv-rc-conf





as for starting wmclock when windowmaker is started, that is covered in the readme file for wmclock...
http://www.jmknoble.net/WindowMaker/wmclock/README