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What is the way to add new programs to be run at startup of the system
I want Samba server and Vuze program to be automatically started at startup and not to be started manually
also wats the way to stop/kill the already running samba server
The "redhat" way to configure a service to start on boot or not is to use chkconfig. If the program does not have it's own init script you can either write one yourself or just shove the command in /etc/rc.local. I think /etc/rc.local needs to return 0 for success but Im not positive.
So...
chkconfig samba on
to subsuquently start and stop a service the proper way is to use the service command which is really just a wrapper around /etc/init.d/servicename so you can use that too
service samba start
/etc/init.d/samba start
start stop and restart should be valid options for any init script.
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