Where does linux keep all the startup shortcuts? Like in windows it's in the registry, start menu startup folder etc... I can't seem to find where linux keeps it. Thanks!

You'll find these types of things (system configuration information) in /etc. It's been a while since I used RH, but if I'm not mistaken, they use rc.d, rc.0, rc.1, and so on for specific runlevel defaults. (Runlevels are pretty simple. 0 is shutdown, 6 is reboot, 3 is usually command line, 1 is something like a super safe (no gui, no network) mode, and 5 is GUI.) rc.d is usually defaults for all runlevels.

So, just change to the /etc directory, and then to the appropriate directory (rc.d, rc.5, or similar for a basic system), and look through those files. They are all pretty basic script files, and you can use the man pages to understand them better. Also, there might be some in your home directory, as "." files. (' ls -d .* ' will list them for you.)

thanks I'll check it out. When you say script, is it the same thing as an ms dos batch file, but for linux?

i guess you could look at a bash script as being equivalent to a dos batch file. but the files inside the rc.0, rc.1, rc.2, etc... are shortcuts to the shellscripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d - but when linux boots, it uses the ones in rc.X (where X is the number equivalent to your run level) to control the order of which scripts are run. if you want to add a process to start up during boot, redhat provides a generic script that's run last during the boot process called /etc/rc.d/rc.local - that's probably where you want to add a process to the boot start up. btw, what's up red. long time no talk.

edit: oh yeah, add the distros you're using in your profile. it'll help when you forget to tell us what distro you're using in your posts.