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Note added about registering the script to start automatically at boot
charlesbrandt Nov 18, 2013
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Expand Up @@ -69,3 +69,12 @@ Logging
By default, standard output goes to _/var/log/scriptname.log_ and
error output to _/var/log/scriptname.err_. If you're not happy with
that, change the variables `stdout_log` and `stderr_log`.

Automatic Startup
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Continuing the above example, to have the service start automatically when the system starts, you can register it as follows:

sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/algorithms
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Hm, thought it was obvious that it needs to be executable. Well wouldn't hurt to mention this, but I think this should be done above, under Script usage, because that part already assumes that the script is executable.

sudo update-rc.d algorithms defaults
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This part is pretty distribution specific, can you add a note that this is how it works on Debian?

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On debian it is

insserv algorithms

by the way.

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on redhat it is

chkconfig --add algorithms