How to auto-start services on boot?

Neorio · 11-04-2003, 06:28 PM

I want my box to boot up with snmpd and snmptrapd running from power-on. How would I go about doing this?

I think I need to do something in the rc.d direcotries somewhere and add a symbolic link for the services that I want to start, so the init process starts them..... but I'm not sure and was hoping someone could point me in the right direction.

kasperhans · 11-04-2003, 07:05 PM

put it into your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file and it will start up during boot

wdingus · 11-04-2003, 07:51 PM

What distribution do you use? At least some(most?) include various utilities to make this easier than manually mucking around with symlinks in /etc/rc.d/* directories. It doesn't hurt to do that at least once though to help fully understand the structure and layout of how the average Linux machine does this.

On RedHat for instance though, there are graphical utilities to enable/disable "services", there is "ntsysv", there is chkconfig, etc...

# chkconfig snmpd --list
# chkconfig snmpd on

Neorio · 11-04-2003, 08:08 PM

I'm toying with the rc.local file. That seems to do the job ok. Just gotta make sure that I don't run a program (like snmptrapd) with output to stderr, otherwise the init process jams up waiting for it to finish, which it doesn't do.

kasperhans · 11-05-2003, 04:52 AM

hehe you will get it soon learning by doing but be sure to have a rescue disc if you work with the init files