Intro to services

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:23:54 -0400, Bill Matthews wrote:

> Hello.  New linux user here.  Downloaded/installed Fedora FC2.  No
> problems, I was amazed!
> 
> I have a lot of Windows experience, and some Solaris.
> 
> I installed the server version of Fedora.  I setup and have working
> sendmail, vsftpd, httpd, etc.
> 
> But I noticed they dont start at boot.  I start them manually.  From
> my solaris days I know I can start them with /etc/rc3.d/Swhatever
> start.  I've also learned from this mailing list that I can start them
> with the command 'service whatever start'.
> 
> But how do I get them to load at boot?  In Solaris, the existance of
> the S script in /etc/rc3.d was enough.  But that doesnt seem to do it
> here?

Examples:

chkconfig vsftpd on
chkconfig --level 5 sendmail on
chkconfig --level 2345 httpd on
chkconfig --list sendmail

Check out the manual page for chkconfig.
 
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Fedora Core release 2.92 (FC3 Test 3) - Linux 2.6.9-1.640
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