daemon startup help!
 

Hi I need help starting a daemon (which is not one of those pre-installed with mandriva which you can graphically add).
It is the noip daemon which you can download from http://www.no-ip.com/downloads.php?page=linux
The daemon works properly but must be started manually with root issuing /usr/local/bin/noip2

How to start it automatically on boot?
thanks

by the way here is the documentation fot the startup script:

The noip2 executable can be run by typing /usr/local/bin/noip2

If you want it to run automatically when the machine is booted, then
place the following script in your startup directory. (/etc/init.d/rcX.d
or /sbin/init.d/rcX.d or ???)

#######################################################
#! /bin/sh
# . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions # uncomment/modify for your killproc
case "$1" in
start)
echo "Starting noip2."
/usr/local/bin/noip2
;;
stop)
echo -n "Shutting down noip2."
killproc -TERM /usr/local/bin/noip2
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop}"
exit 1
esac
exit 0
#######################################################

Where the 'X' in rcX.d is the value obtained by running the
following command
grep initdefault /etc/inittab | awk -F: '{print $2}'

Killproc can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/init
Alternatively, you can uncomment the line after #! /bin/sh

There is a Mandrake package for this. Goto http://easyurpmi.zarb.org and setup your sources (its in contrib in 2006) and then install it through menu->System->Configuration->Packaging->Install Software. You'll find that the Mandrake package will install an entry in /etc/init.d/ so that you can start and stop it as a service like the other daemons (using either the 'service' and 'chkconfig' commands or the Services control panel in Mandrake Control Centre->System).

I didn't catch what I should install, my sources are already configured to install from repositories, but my program is installed from a tar.gz package. So I can't install it with urpmi

could you please tell me more... thanks

I meant install it using urpmi instead of from the source code (the .tar.gz). Its in the contrib repo so if urpmi can't find it make sure you've got that setup.