Starting services at bootup

Lucasite · 03-20-2004, 10:24 AM

Hi there,

can anyone tell me the file that contains a list of programme to load at startup?
Ive installed apache web server, but cant get it to start until my box has booted up, and i physical have to type in httpd

Any help gratefully appreciated

Andrew Benton · 03-20-2004, 10:56 AM

Every distribution has it's own way of arranging the bootscripts which start things up when the system boots. It would help if you could share the secret of which version of linux you're using.

Lucasite · 03-20-2004, 12:29 PM

sorry,
im using vector linux.
it has its own tool in X that allows you to select which programs to run at startup, however Ive installed apache and mysql now, but they dont appear in the list. i have to manually start them

WebWorkz · 04-16-2004, 09:07 AM

How to start apache on boot up. I have no gui so I'm going to have to learn this stuff from command line.

Everything I read tells me I should nix the idea of gui on a box to be used as webserver, so here I go...

Thanks

Nis · 04-16-2004, 09:13 AM

In Vector, boot scripts are in /etc/rc.d. If you installed apache and MySQL from Slack/Vector packages then there might be a rc.apache or rc.mysql script in /etc/rc.d. Make them executable:

Code:

chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.apache

and they'll start when you reboot. If you don't see a rc.apache or rc.mysql script, then add the commands to start them to /etc/rc.d/rc.local. Then they'll start at boot.

rylan76 · 04-17-2004, 02:08 PM

Hi!

In RedHat 7.3, I put

httpd &

in

/etc/rc.local

That started it up fine each time I booted my system.