starting services in Linux at startup

Hi there alll, I am adding a few services and servers to my linux station,
at the momment i am starting these services manually by running the various services launch scripts.

I would like to automate these services to be started at startup f my linux sever, what i would like to know is what is the best method in getting these serviices started without messing up my linux orionional startup.

eg of a service I would like to start up automatically would be

Apache web server
VNC
Mysql

so please fill me in on your recomendations.

Cheers

What distro are you using?

Well at the momment I am testing the configuration on Red Hat, but I think I will switch to Fedora.

cheers Mic

Just about any Linux distro you put Apache/MySQL on will autostart them as default, or at least that has been my experience.

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