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 Configuring Continuum to start automatically on Linux
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Miguel Griffa
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 Mon Oct 11 2005

Configuring Continuum to start automatically on Linux 2

* Introduction

 This document explains how to setup continuum to start automatically (when the machine boots)
 in linux. This is a procedure quite tipical for a linux system administrator, the
 purpose of this document is to help you in case you don't have a linux sysadmin 
 at hand.

 This document is based on Debian GNU/Linux, all concepts should apply to other distributions
 and all procedures (tipically with some slight modificacion on directories paths) should apply.

* Prerequisites

 * Download continuum from {{{download.html}here}}.
 
 * extract the archive in <<</usr/local>>>

* Configuring continuum in init

 Since the continuum linux script bin/linux/run.sh understands the same arguments as linux boot scripts, 
 there is no need to write a particular startup script to add continuum to the linux boot process.
 All you need to do, as root, is:

+--+
ln -s /usr/local/continuum-1.0-beta-1/bin/linux/run.sh /etc/init.d/continuum
+--+

 At this point you have continuum ready to be symlinked from different runlevels. This might 
 sound a bit esoteric, but it is not, you find very fast these words as soon as you start reading
 about the init process. Fortunately, Debian GNU/Linux comes with a very handy utility to create this 
 links, just run as root:

+--+
update-rc.d -n continuum defaults 80
+--+

 If just copypasted this command, you will see something like this:

+--+
 Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/continuum ...
   /etc/rc0.d/K80continuum -> ../init.d/continuum
   /etc/rc1.d/K80continuum -> ../init.d/continuum
   /etc/rc6.d/K80continuum -> ../init.d/continuum
   /etc/rc2.d/S80continuum -> ../init.d/continuum
   /etc/rc3.d/S80continuum -> ../init.d/continuum
   /etc/rc4.d/S80continuum -> ../init.d/continuum
   /etc/rc5.d/S80continuum -> ../init.d/continuum
+--+ 

 What you see is the symlinks that would be created. The above command didn't do anything that's 
 because the <<<-n>>> switch, remove it to get the real links creted.