I know there is a command that says "service <name> stop/start/restart"
and that the same command allows to show status of the services, however what I don't know is how can I prevent them from starting in the first place......

can someone help me with this ?
how can I tell which services start and which don't ?
and how can I delete services ?

The services are started at boot by scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d (on Redhat, the others may have some differences). When entering into a particular runlevel (e.g. 5 - X11, multiuser, network), the links to these scripts in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d are started.

You can manually remove the unnecessary links, however, there are cleaner ways to do this. Check for some graphical frontends (e.g. rehat-config-services), debian has some console-based utilities too.

And, of course, you may remove the associated software.

Best,

Ott

The command:
chkconfig --list

Will list all configured services and what runlevels they start at. See man pages for details.

You can use chkconfig to configure services to start at boot time.
example:
chkconfig --level 3:5 httpd start

This will start apache for runlevels 3 & 5.

chool ! thanks

Hello to all,

I am a new member, just joined, and posting my first mail.
Firstly, i introduce myself. I am working in a company, on linux platform, and belongs to Noida,India.

I wish Ur help in solving some problem concern with the above topic only.

My application is running on a machine having Red Hat 8.0. This application runs its own services which can be easily registered on Windows Platform. We can start/stop these services manually also.

My problem is How can be these services run on linux machine? If i write the shell scripts files, and copy them in /etc/rc.d/init.d folder during installation period then Will it work..?
also if i want to start/stop these services manually, then, Will the service command work..?

Second thing, if assume that currently these services are not active or available. I want to provide these services from a remote machine, i.e. remotely connect to this m/c from any m/c i have, want to load,start/stop the services.. then how can i do all this from remotely..?

Thanks in advance....

hi there

get hold of any script from rc.d directory and then follow it and put the required commands for ur script there

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