Intro to services

[Jacob L E Blain Christen]

Scot L. Harris 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.

indeed you can.  if you work like me though, you will have configured
a few services to run at boot time but forgotten which ones exactly.
flip flopping runlevels for me catches the ones i forgot to start!
--
jacob