Starting /usr/sbin/ program on boot

orangecakez · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Feb 2007 Posts: 116

I have bitlbee in /usr/sbin and I want it to start whenever I start up Gentoo, like with /etc/init.d/ scripts. How can I make it execute "bitlbee" with all the other stuff that starts up?

Wormo · Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:35 am Post subject:

Write a little init script for it, and add the init script to default runlevel

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=4#doc_chap4

orangecakez · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Feb 2007 Posts: 116

I'm not very experienced with scripting, but is this correct? :

tarpman · Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:36 am Post subject:

Bitlbee in Gentoo comes with an init script which is installed as /etc/init.d/bitlbeed. You should be able to configure it to start at boot same as any other service.

And no, that script would not work, as you could have found out by trying it.
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