Intro to services

[Scot L. Harris]

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 10:36, Jacob L E Blain Christen wrote:

> to configure most redhat variants to boot various services:
> 
> 	chkconfig --level 345 myservice on
> 
> that will configure it to run when entering run levels 3, 4, and 5.
> 	chkconfig
> with no arguments gives you an informative usage message.
> once you have things configured as to how you want them, you can
> reboot or
> 	telinit <runlevel>
> (think youll have to hop to another level then back to your current)
> 

Actually once you have the service configured you can issue commands
like:

service sendmail start

to start that particular service instead of jumping runlevels.


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