[techtalk] Starting programs at boot -- various questions

[Darren]

Hi all,

Two questions:

1. I recently installed a true type font server, xfstt, primarily because
I miss Verdana, et al, when web browsing. I'd like this to start at boot;
what's the best way of doing this?

2. I have a script in my /etc/rc3.d directory to start pppd automatically
at boot (there's one in all the other rcX.d directories, but I always boot
in runlevel 3, so I don't really care about the others right now). When
the machine runs this script, it returns a message about 'comand not
found'. I'm pretty certain that the offending line in the script occurs in
this section:

        # Start daemon.
        echo -n "Starting pppd: "
        daemon pppd
        echo
        ;;

Specifically, the 'daemon pppd' line. I'm assuming this because I can't
locate a 'daemon' command. In a similar vein, this later section of the
script has a similar problem:

        # Stop daemon.
        echo -n "Shutting down pppd: "
        killproc pppd
        echo
        ;;

But in this case it's the 'killproc pppd' line. Same problem: seemingly no
'killproc' command.

So, basically: where can I find these two programs? I've poked around the
web a bit but I can't find anything that's very helpful. I'd like to get
this figured out since I'm way tired of having to 'su' every time I start
the machine.

Any help would be greatly, greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

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