On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, shane c branch wrote: > Yes, runlevel 3 is my default. Just to make sure I understand, the > ./S98clamd in your second line above refers to the location of clamd? > > Mine exists in /usr/local/sbin/clamd so I would: > > #cd /etc/rc3.d > #ln -s ../init.d/clamd ./user/local/sbin/clamd In that case, I would link this way: # cd /etc/init.d # ln -s /usr/local/sbin/clamd ./clamd # cd /etc/rc3.d # ln -s ../init.d/clamd ./S98clamd The reason being that most people expect startup scripts to live in /etc/init.d (I think that's true of most Linux distros) so its probably a good idea to follow the convention. I install a lot of stuff from source and frequently have sym links from /etc/init.d to various places under /usr/local, but I can still do the customary "/etc/init.d/script stop" command and dont need to remember exactly where I installed something ;-) -- Aj. Sys. Admin / Developer -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
