[Asterisk-Users] Auto Starting Asterisk

[Adthrawn]

Hi,

I'm a newbie to the list, but have been screwing around with Asterisk 
for the last 6 months or so (on a purely experimental basis so far). 
I'm not a linux expert by any stretch, (I'm a Mac OS X user), so I'm 
unsure where the line is drawn in terms of Linux issues or Asterisk 
issues.

At present, I have to manually start Asterisk from the command line, 
but I'd like to have it automatically start up (and in the correct 
mode) at startup.

For now, the server is running as a workstation, so I only need it to 
run as a background daemon, but in the near future, we're going to run 
Asterisk of a dedicated racked server, which we would only want to run 
Asterisk, and there bare minimums required - as far as I'm aware, you 
could start Asterisk very early on in the boot-up process.

Can anybody guide me in configuring the system to start Asterisk from 
bootup... Probably a highly remedial question - but you've got to start 
somewhere!

Regards,
Ad.