Hi,
Forgive me if this has been asked before I've been googling for a while now and came up empty handed. I am looking for some generalized editable start scripts or tutorials on making start up scripts. I'm using Fedora Core 4. I'm kind a a re-newbie as it were. I used Linux before but I had not used it in a while. Things have changed and I've forgotten allot so need some refreshing.

At the moment my primary interest is starting a hybrid-ircd and ircd-services at boot along with loading the associated configs and logs, etc. I am running a small private ircd for development and testing. Both services are up and running but I have to load then manualy. I'd also like to learn how to make generalized scripts easily altered to load other services on boot as well. Any ideas where I can find and examples like this?

TIA
RE-

There are lots of links online for startup scripts
http://www.mathworks.com/access/help.../chap1_17.html
http://the.taoofmac.com/space/HOWTO/...Fedora%20Linux
are just two really quick. You should be able to read thru them and get the idea on how to make them and where to put them.

Have a look in /etc.rc.d/init.d this is where the startup scripts for FC are kept. The system uses link from /etc/rc.d/rc5.d to actually run the scripts in level 5.
The directories rc0.d rc1.d rc2.d rc3.d rc4.d rc5.d rc6.d determine the start and stop services scripts for each run level. The number is the runlevel.
The link names have the format K36lisa or S36lisa. The K means kill (stop), the S means start, the number is the sequence number ie the order for starting or stopping the service and the final part "lisa" is the service that is affected.
If you look at the scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d they will give you starting point for a script to start and stop your services.