start-up items

[Chris Wong]

On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Ray Strode wrote:

> > I was wondering how you force certain packages to start at start-up.  For
> > example httpd starts up automatically but no other services do.  How can I
> > get others (esp. inetd, mysql, webmin etc) to start up as well.
> RedHat based distros (ie Mandrake) has a cli utility called
> /sbin/chkconfig
> /sbin/chkconfig --list shows services, /sbin/chkconfig --add [service]
> adds
> and /sbin/chkconfig --remove [service] removes.


One caveat. chkconfig is VERY picky about syntax in the file it's trying
to add. It needs to have a Description field, run-level etc. Take a look
at an existing one, and try to copy that header as close as you can.