I've got a program (dansguardian) configured to run at startup, but it's never running when I reboot the computer. I have to start it manually each time. I checked the start configuration, and it looks okay:

inittab says default boot level is 2
/etc/rc2.d has a link to ../init.d/dansguardian
/etc/init.d/ contains the script dansguardian

So why is this process not running when the computer boots up?

Is there a log file that I can check to confirm that the dansguardian script is being ran? ("dmesg | grep dansguardian" yielded nothing)

Usually it is in the file /var/log/boot. since it appears you are using Ubuntu, bootlogging is probably disabled by default (at least it is in Debian pure, which Ubuntu is based on). To enable bootlogging, edit the file /etc/default/bootlogd

Problem fixed. Here are the results:

I edited the /etc/default/bootlogd and rebooted the computer. I noticed in the startup that the squid service as Failing at startup.

The message said that Dansguardian was not configured (although it was). I checked the dansguadian.conf file and found a line "UNCONFIGURED", with instructions just above that to comment out the UNCONFIGURED line when it is configured like I wanted.

I commented this line and rebooted the machine again. The squid service started fine and dansguardian was running.

By pljvaldez

Thanks guys.
This is excactly what I needed