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Thursday, April 26th, 2007

Note to self: Linux startup services

I noticed today I’ve been using Gentoo too much… I was trying to get sendmail to start during server boot. A couple of “command not found” attempts to find rc-update went by before I realized “wait, this system is running RHEL”… So I tried chkconfig but since /sbin wasn’t in my path I thought I was off… I was stumped - did they change it in RHEL5? So I did a Google search and confirmed, yes it was chkconfig, but since /sbin wasn’t in my path I had to “/sbin/chkconfig” and that’s what threw me off…. weird how you can forget simple things so easily…

Anyway, here’s a great site that shows how to add startup services to most distributions. (and the old, manual way)