[svlug] cron and cups not starting at boot

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Skip Evans (skip at bigskypenguin.com):

> 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

Are you aware that Ubuntu no longer uses the traditional System V Init?
Thus, those directories are obsolescent.

Start here:
http://upstart.ubuntu.com/getting-started.html