Starting Things Automatically

previous tale I want to talk about is my setting up of MySQL. Getting hold of MySQL was fine - in fact the YaST installer enabled me to select it and install it from my SuSE CDs. Getting it to start up automatically was another issue. I looked around the Help system - that didn't help much. I find that most on-line help systems require the person needing aid to know the right phrase to search for.

I clearly didn't even though I looked for startup, logon scripts, autostart etc.

I even tried putting a link in a directory to a script. Then I found runlevels. This was the solution, and can be done via the YaST utility.

Is this helping those switching from other OS's? No.

Once I had overcome this then getting Apache started was easy.
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