Re: booting up

[Steffen Krohn <steffen okh1-pc2 stud uni-hannover de>]

Patrick Tao wrote:
> 
> Dear RHL users,
> 
> I need to have more control of what things get loaded during boot up (ypserver,
> httpd, sendmail, news server, network stuff ..etc).
> 
> Can someone tell me the linux equivalent of a config.sys and autoexec.bat files
> found in DOS ?

Have a look at /etc/rc.d/*
/etc/rc.d/init.d lists all programs. They are invoked by the
different runlevels /etc/rc.d/rc#.d/
This means /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/ lists all programs wich are started
in runlevel 3 (multiuser-mode).
You should also examine rc.local, rc.sysinit.
Hope that helps,
                   Steffen
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