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Add Squid at startup?

Hi! How do I add squid at startup?
I have squid installed at /home/squid (home has seperate partition, bigger space).

the executable is at /home/squid/sbin/squid

how do I add it so when my machine starts its started as well?

Thanks again! :)

Try this make a file in /etc/rc.d called rc.squid in it add this

Code:

#!/bin/sh

#

# Start the Squid proxy server

#

if [ "$1" = "stop" ]; then

 echo "Stopping squid..."

 /usr/sbin/squid -k shutdown

 elif [ "$1" = "restart" ]; then

 echo "Restarting squid..."

 /usr/sbin/squid -k shutdown

 sleep 1

 /usr/sbin/squid

 elif [ "$1" = "start" ]; then

 echo "Starting squid: /usr/sbin/squid"

 /usr/sbin/squid -D

 else

 echo "usage $0 start|stop|restart"

fi

Then edit rc.local and add

Code:

if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.squid ]; then

  /etc/rc.d/rc.squid start

fi

lastly do "chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.squid"

Thanks man! What type of scripting is that? Also any tutorials on those? Thanks!

BTW, it didn't work!

My bad i forgot to edit the paths to match where you have it installed
change the /usr/sbin/squid lines to /home/squid/sbin/squid.

The scripting is just plain old bash scripting.
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html

It worked!!! Thanks man! Thanks for the links too! :)