Newbie Question

[Jason Clinton]

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Matthew Bennett wrote:
| I am fairly new to Linux so forgive my ignorance.  What is Linux's equivalent
| to Windows "startup" folder?  I'm trying to figure out how to startup Apache
| automatically when I boot up the machine.  Once I figure that out, I assume
| that it would be the same for other programs like JBoss or Tomcat.
|
| I am running SuSE 8.0 Professional if that helps any.
|

There are several ways to accomplish running a task at boot.

If you want to run Apache, you need to it run when your Linux partition starts
up and it needs to run as a daemon (equiv. to Windows 'service). To accomplish
this, you can us an Init (RC) editor or Suse may have some method by which one
can do this at the command prompt like:

# rc-update add apache

GUI applications need to be started after the window manager starts (like KDE or
Gnome). I don't know how to do it in KDE, but in Gnome, you go to a
configuration window called session editor and add applications to the list and
arange the order in which they start.

Perhaps someone with some more SUSE experience could help you out.
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