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How to start a Daemon in the start (bootup) of Linux?

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How to start a Daemon in the start (bootup) of Linux?
posted Nov 29, 2013 by Satish Mishra

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Simplest way to do it to invoke it from the script /etc/rc.local. Don't forget to background it if the daemon doesn't do it on its own.

answer Nov 29, 2013 by Jai Prakash
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Either put the start and stop script in /etc/rc.local, or clone a start AND STOP script from one of the simpler ones in /etc/init.d/ and link chkconfig it on.

If you do the latter, be sure that you consider when to start - you don't want to start a network-related script before the network is up.

answer Nov 29, 2013 by anonymous
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