[svlug] cron and cups not starting at boot

[Skip Evans]

That's where I run the commands each morning to get them going:

/etc/init.d/cron start
/etc/init.d/cups start

Skip

Jeff wrote:
> I think the commands go somewhere in
> Init.d.  Look that up if you haven't already.
> 
> Jeff
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> 
> On Mar 4, 2010, at 9:42 PM, Skip Evans <skip at bigskypenguin.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I have a Ubuntu 9.10 machine that lately no longer starts cron
>> or cups at boot. I tried putting the following in the startup
>> applications gui tool.
>>
>> /etc/init.d/cron start
>> /etc/init.d/cups start
>>
>> But that didn't fix it, and I'm guessing that maybe because
>> these have to be run by root? Both commands work at the
>> command line and I have to remember to run each when I power
>> up the machine.
>>
>> I've googled around but not found where to put the commands to
>> make them start at boot, and I know this is really basic
>> Linux, but what's a coder to do?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Skip
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