Autostart

Add the lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.local.

You can use any text you wish to edit this file.

The files to put in such start-up commands depend on whether they should be executed on system start-up (like autoexec.bat), or each time a user logs in.

  - user login: ~/.profile
  - system startup: distribution dependent

For a SuSE (I think RH is quite simular) you could use /etc/rc.d/boot or preferred /etc/rc.d/boot.local. A better place might be the runlevel configuration (usually at /etc/rc.d or /sbin/init.d). Those contain scripts that are called with parameters like 'start', 'stop', 'restart', ... to start/stop services when going from one runlevel to another. To actually activate one of them you need to make a link in the corresponding sub-directory (e.g. rc3.d for runlevel 3). Take a look at the directory listing: the first characters of the link describe in which order those files are executed (e.g. S10... will start a service prior to S11..., K10... will stop (kill) a service prior to K11...).

If you insist on using mc, then take a look in

/etc/sysconfig/network
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-ipx
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network

Everything you want to do, except the ncpmount, is there already. You only have to add the right parameters to the first two files above.

Linuxconf does this for you. Linuxconf will run in text mode if no DISPLAY variable is set.

I would add the ncpmount line to "/etc/rc.d/rc.local".

sorry did not get it to work.

I'm not understanding the script-file

i added the lines in the file, that now looks like:

#!/bin/sh

# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.

if [ -f /etc/redhat-release ]; then
    R=$(cat /etc/redhat-release)

    arch=$(uname -m)
    a="a"
    case "_$arch" in
            _a*) a="an";;
            _i*) a="an";;

 esac

    # This will overwrite /etc/issue at every boot.  So, make any changes you
    # want to make to /etc/issue here or you will lose them when you reboot.
    echo "" > /etc/issue
    echo "$R" >> /etc/issue
    echo "Kernel $(uname -r) on $a $(uname -m)" >> /etc/issue

    cp -f /etc/issue /etc/issue.net
    echo >> /etc/issue

ipx_configure auto_interface=on
ipx_configure auto_primary=on
ncpmount -S HAB_FILE_SERVER - U Justus -P ******** /mnt/novell -b -c Justus
   
fi


But no luck yet,
Please help.

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:-)))))))))) Exactly what i wanted !