[techtalk] Starting programs at boot -- various questions

[Marie Fischer]

On Thu, 11 May 2000, Alex Yan wrote:

> On Thu, 11 May 2000, Darren wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> There are a number of ways to do it, but I think your best bet would
> be to add the xfstt startup command to /etc/rc.d/rc.local.  If you use
> xdm, you might consider putting it in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession.

Actually, as you need it only for X, you might write a small startup
script, put it in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ and put a symlink to it in
/etc/rc.d/rc5.d/ :) BTW, xfs (redhat's default font server)  is also
capable of serving ttfonts, look at 
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU-4.html

-- 
marie