init.d start up scripts

[anitha2324]

Hi All,

I am newbie to linux , i am using fedora 8 , i have installed some softwares like mysql , apache ...etc , but the problem is that all those services are not starting at the boot time automatically,

for starting that i have to do it manually , for example to start mysql , i have to do that manually using the command
#/etc/init.d/mysqld start

is my installation of the software is wrong , or is it something related to some settings in some configuration files , please help me and let me know

[BlueC]

see "man chkconfig"

for example, a (simplified) way to make mysqld start at boot would be:

chkconfig mysqld on

and to see what software is configured to run at boot on all different run levels:

chkconfig --list

as I said, see "man chkconfig" for more info.

hth
C

[marcrblevins]

You use yum to install those package right? If so, then chkconfig is the right way.
If you downloaded the package elsewhere that are not a .rpm file and manually installed it yourself, you are out of luck.

[anitha2324]

thanks for the reply


yes i have installed them using yum , i ll check chkconfig

[anitha2324]

Hi thanks alot for the help

i have execute this command

#chkconfig mysqld on

and now mysql is starting automatically when the system boots ,

but am going to install some other services and i have to repeat the same thing for each service

, what i want now is permanent configuration which runs automatically all the services under /etc/init.d at the boot time and i will not be in need to execute such above command for any new installed service ,

[markkuk]

Originally Posted by anitha2324

, what i want now is permanent configuration which runs automatically all the services under /etc/init.d at the boot time and i will not be in need to execute such above command for any new installed service ,

No, you really don't want any such program. Only those services that you actually need should be configured to start at boot, and only after you have made all necessary configuration.

[LBCoder]

for FILE in `ls /etc/init.d`; do /sbin/chkconfig $FILE on; done

**** BUT DON'T DO IT!!!

Take a look at what is in the directory /etc/rc.d. Notice you have your init.d directory (/etc/init.d is actually just a symlink to /etc/rc.d/init.d), and you have a bunch of rcX.d directories. Each "X" is a runlevel (see "cat /etc/inittab"). Every time you start into runlevel 5, it runs all the "S*" scripts that are in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d. When it *leaves* runlevel 5, it runs all the "K*" scripts in the same directory. The "chkconfig" program creates symlinks in the various rcX.d directories to scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d/.

[marko]

Like post 7 says, chkconfig changes are persistent over boots.

If you want a nicer tool to setup services, try system-config-services
since it's a bit more efficient than chkconfig