HOWTO autorun a program on start up?
 

Hi everyone! I'm completely new in Linux and easily got into trouble.
Now my question is: HOWTO autorun a program on start up? I've got a webserver software(not apache) and it is located in /root/webserver/linux/ and the program's name is "webs", I want it to autorun on start up by adding certant shell scripts somewhere but I don't know how. Somebody help? Thanks in advance!

This can be pretty distro specific. They're normally in the /etc/rc.d/* directories. This is probably best done by copying and editing one of the scripts in /etc/init.d/ to start, stop and restart your webserver, copying and editing one of the scripts in /etc/rc.d/* to start the webserver and one to stop the webserver and copying your webserver into /usr/local/bin/

The following may help (I've only skimmed it)

http://www.linuxvoodoo.com/resources/howtos/sysvinit/

If you can find a distro specific package for this program, it would probably make it much easier for you.

Hi Lucidion,Thank you very much for your reply but seems that here I can't open the link you've given. I'm trying your method but I don't know whether It makes sense to me or not.

As Lucidon said, the startup script locations are pretty distro specific. If you can disclose the distro you are currently working on, solutions will flow.

Well.Now I got another server which comes along with a shell like follows:
#! /bin/sh
#
# /etc/init.d/boa -- start/stop Boa HTTP server
#
# This file was automatically customized by debmake on Mon, 23 Dec 1996 20:27:43 -0800
#
# Written by Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@drinkel.ow.org>.
# Modified for Debian GNU/Linux by Ian Murdock <imurdock@gnu.ai.mit.edu>.
# Modified for Debian by Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>
# Modified for Debian GNU/Linux by Jonathon Nelson <jnelson@boa.org>

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
DAEMON=/usr/sbin/boa
# update-rc.d option extracted by debstd to generate postinst on package build
FLAGS="defaults 50"

test -f $DAEMON || exit 0
ALIVE=`ps axw | grep "/usr/sbin/boa *\$" | awk '{print $1}'`
#ALIVE=`pidof $DAEMON`
WAIT=30

case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting HTTP server: Boa"
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec $DAEMON
echo "."
;;
stop)
echo -n "Stopping HTTP server: Boa"
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --exec $DAEMON
sleep 1
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --signal INT --exec $DAEMON
echo "."
;;
force-reload)
echo -n "Forcing reload of HTTP server: Boa"
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --signal HUP --exec $DAEMON
echo "."
;;
restart)
echo -n "Restarting HTTP server: Boa"
if [ -n "$ALIVE" ];
then
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --exec $DAEMON
$DAEMON
# start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec $DAEMON
echo "."
else
echo ". Boa not running! Not attempting restart."
fi
;;
*)
echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/boa {start|stop|restart|force-reload}"
exit 1
;;
esac

exit 0

The filename is boa.init
I did as follows:
copy it to /etc/rc.d/init.d/
then make links:
ln -s /etc/init.d/boa.init /etc/rc3.d/S99boa
ln -s /etc/init.d/boa.init /etc/rc0.d/K01boa

then I restart the computer.BUT seems that boa isn't started!! what seems to be the problem?

Oh man, Who can help me?

/var/log/messages can be an admin's best friend. BTW does the file have execute perms?