How to configure a server program to autostart at bootup time in SUSE?

Question

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Answer 1

Server programs are started using scripts linked from /etc/init.d/rc*.d. This is the correct way to add another one:

1. Create a shell script called /etc/init.d/<serverprogram> with the correct LSB meta information. You can base it on one of the existing scripts, it should be self-explanatory.
2. Then use insserv to automatically generate the right symlinks from /etc/init.d/rc*.d to it, based on the LSB meta information.