I have a torrent tracker setup on my server and right now to start it up I connect to my box and execute a file called bnbt_scren which looks like this:
I want to have that execute when the server starts up, so I copied that file to /etc/rc.d/init.d and changed it to include the full path to the bnbt tracker:
That doesn't seem to work. I'm fairly new to linux, so is there anything I did wrong with the file? (the server is running red hat AS3)

you should link it in your /etc/rc3.d/ (and/or rc5.d -- whatever runlevels you want it to start in)

you may want to modify the script slightly to allow for starting/stopping if you so choose, otherwise just the S should be used if you dont care about killing it when changing runlevels. you can look at the other scripts in /etc/init.d/ for examples of this

the S## can be different, this is just "when" it will be started in the order of things (so obviously, network would need to be started before this if it relies on Internet access )

or even easier would be to toss it in /etc/rc.local


hope this helps

thanks for the help.