Starting a Program as a Service

Abnoba12 · 03-05-2005, 10:35 AM

I just installed LAMPP on my machine and I want the program to startup when booting. I was thinking I just add it as a service under the "add service" option in fedora core 2. I think it would be easyer to just add it using the shell.

The command to start the program manualy is "opt/lampp/lampp start

btmiller · 03-05-2005, 11:55 AM

The easiest thing to do would be to add that command to /etc/init.d/rc.local -- this file gets executed on bootup. You could also write a full fledged init script (one that takes at least "start" and "stop" as arguments, put it in /etc/init.d, and use chkconfig to control it. If you want to go this latter route, you're best off looking at the other init scripts at /etc/init.d and seeing how they work.

Abnoba12 · 03-05-2005, 01:00 PM

Thank you, that worked.

I like the speed and power of linux, but wow is there a learning curve.
Jacob Weigand