-<H2><A NAME="ss4.1">4.1 Autostarting the cluster</A>
-</H2>
-
-<P>This is not only a way to start the cluster automatically, it also works as a
-watchdog, checking the sanity of DXSpider and respawning it should it crash for
-any reason. Before doing the following, shutdown the cluster as you did earlier.
-<P>
-<P>Login as root and bring up the /etc/inittab file in your favourite editor. Add
-the following lines to the file near the end ...
+<P>The directory /spider/scripts is where it all happens and is used for several
+things. Firstly it contains a file called startup that can be used to call
+in any changes to the cluster from the default settings on startup. This
+script is executed immediately after all initialisation of the node is done
+but before any connections are possible. Examples of this include how many
+spots it is possible to get with the sh/dx command, whether you want
+registration/passwords to be permanently on etc. An example file is shown
+below and is included in the distribution as startup.issue.