Mike Fabian patiently wrote:
You have to do that as root. It fails because you are doing that as normal user.
By the way, as root you have to type either the full path
/etc/init.d/canna start
[snip] Excellent. It worked! (Or anyway I read "done" or similar in green.) I then -- still as root, of course -- carefully typed LANG=ja_JP kinput2 -xim -kinput -canna & I thereupon read: [1] 11415 Warning: yubin7 -- immediately followed by 24 or so characters of gibberish, no doubt intended as half that number of characters of Japanese. Hoping against hope that the warning was meaningless, I opened Konqueror, went to Google, hit Shift-Space, and typed something that might have been Japanese. Well, it wasn't: it was resolutely roomaji! Did I make a typo?
To make canna start automatically during booting, type
insserv -d canna
(also as root).
[snip]
and then canna will start automatically during booting.
(And not only for root, I hope.) Neat-o. Can I follow that with "insserv something-or-other-kinput2-something-or-other" for the startup of kinput to be automated as well? "insserv": no mention of this in the indexes to the SuSE 8.2 Personal manual, the still-pretty-incomprehensible but I thought fairly comprehensive *Linux in a Nutshell*, to the much gentler *Running Linux* [for which I paid almost 7,000 only today], to *Red Hat Linux Installation & Configuration Handbook* . . . jeez, how many more books will I have to buy? Really, I wouldn't mind buying yet another book if I had good reason to believe it would be useful. But when I look in amazon.com for the keywords "suse linux", I see for example *SuSE Linux Installation & Configuration Handbook*, about which one review writes, "This book is based on SuSE 6.3", *Install, Configure, and Customize SuSE Linux*, published three years ago, *Installing SuSE LINUX: The Authoritative Solution*, which comes with SuSE 6.3 . . . Since 6.3 clearly predates 7.0, which http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/suse-cjk/suse-cjk.html treats as "obsolete stuff", I'm not eager to buy any of these. Suggestions? (Perhaps there's a wide choice in German; but, being a typical pathetic Englishman, I can hardly parse a single sentence of German.)