Auto-staring Shoutcast Server on Unix Fedora

[darkstar2002c]

Does anyone know how a Shoutcast server can be setup to run automaticly when a unix server boots? I am having problems with a server that is rebooting every now and then and it is a pain to restart the servers automaticly. Is their a cron job or some other way to perform this action on server boot so that the Shoutcast server will start itself with no user help?

Thanks in advance.

[djSpinnerCee]

On most UNIX systems the "Startup" applications are found in the RC directories -- on standard UNIX, this would be /etc/rc and /etc/rc[N] where N=the system runlevel that starts the contained startup scripts.

This is a setup similar to Windows services -- the directory contains scripts that are called by ie: S90sc_trans start for startables, or "stop" to kill them -- they are executed in filename order, so make sure that you name the file to start after things like TCP [hbtcp?] and other things that your SHOUTcast may need. Look at a few to see how they accomplish their work, also make sure that you "export" any environment that you need in the script.

cron is a better way to load things based on time of day, not things that should run at system startup.