A less technical start to chkconfig is described here and a companion
article.
http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2000-08/lw-08-geek_2.html
Then check (no pun intended) the man/info pages for the chkconfig
command.
.
Rick Herrem

On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 23:54:38 -0700 Carl Parrish <cparrish@home.com>
writes:
> 
> 
> Steve Ellis wrote:
> 
> 
> > 
> > PS - are there any good web-based Linux tutorials?  I know enough 
> to be
> > dangerous and would like to better educate myself.  One area that 
> I would
> > like to better understand is how to change what processes are 
> started after
> > the kernel boots.  I would like to strip down what is running - I 
> don't need
> > to be running things like sendmail and NFS on my firewall.
> 
> My personal current favorite is rute. 
> (http://rute.sourceforge.net/). I 
> think everything you need for LPI is covered (and more).
> 
> Carl P.
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