I'd like to have the following startup at boot:

samba
nfs-kernel-server
nfs-common

If I understand it correctly, I need to make a symblink to each of these and place them in one of my /etc/rc?.d dirs.

Which runlevel should I put them in? Is it /etc/rc5.d

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no rc3.d

which actually supprised me since I'm used to standard debian which uses rc2.d

for it to work you need to put a symlink in this format Sxxprogram
S means run it, if you link it with K it will not run it. xx is a number between 01 and 99 that tells the system where in the boot sequence to run it. That's the hard part. The easiest way would probably be to use debians utilities which slip my mind right now. It's something like etc-defaults or something cesman has listed how to do it that way in other topics, but I'm too lazy to search and link it right now.

A search of forum, would have produced...
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2

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Actually found that link, but I wanted to add them myself for two reasons:

1. So I would learn how to do it to apply to other problems
2. So I could add specifically only those three to the system. I recently messed-up my master backend server and had to nuke the drive and do a clean install. Now everything is running smoothly again, and I want to keep it that way

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Retired KM user (R4 - R6.04); friend to LH users.

well what is in the other post only applies to one service at a time.

For example samba.

#update-rc.d daemon defaults

would be

#update-rc.d samba defaults