If you are rebooting your Linux server on a regular basis then probably you want to configure your services in such a way that they get restarted on reboot. By doing this you don’t have to start them manually each time you reboot.
I have taken the example of Apache service with httpd script file name.
- Become as root user on your Linux server
- Create or copy your script under /etc/init.d
[[email protected] init.d]# ls -ltr httpd -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 3371 Jan 6 08:56 httpd [[email protected] init.d]#
- Add script to start on boot using chkconfig utility
[[email protected] init.d]# chkconfig --add httpd [[email protected] init.d]# chkconfig httpd on
- Confirm script is added using chkconfig utility
[[email protected] init.d]# chkconfig --list httpd httpd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off [[email protected] init.d]#
That’s all! httpd script will be called to start services on Linux boot.
In case you need to disable auto-start service then you can use the following commands
chkconfig httpd off
chkconfig –del httpd
This has helped me and I hope it’s beneficial to you.
Instead of chkconfig –del httpd, we need to do chkconfig –-del httpd (Please check chkconfig sysntax)
Thanks Nikhil, it was wordpress converting double dash into single which I just fixed.
can some one Provide sh script for this commands.
i wish to pass service name as parameter
which distro is this for? doesn’t work on debian nor ubuntu.
Hello Shlomo, It was tested on CentOS. For Ubuntu, I wrote something here – http://geekflare.com/auto-restart-services-when-down/