Most Redhat/Fedora users are used to chkconfig and service for controlling the services/programs that startup at boot time. Here is how you do it in Ubuntu
- Check status of a particular service
[bash] sudo SERVICE_NAME status [/bash]
Example : Check the status of Apache Web Service
[bash]samurai@samurai:~$ sudo service apache2 status
Apache is running (pid 3496).[/bash]
- Add a service to start on bootup
[bash] update-rc.d SERVICE_NAME add [/bash]
Example : Configure squid to start on bootup
[bash] update-rc.d squid add [/bash]
- Stop a service from starting on bootup
[bash] update-rc.d SERVICE_NAME remove [/bash]
Example : Configure squid to NOT start on bootup
[bash] update-rc.d squid remove [/bash]
NOTE : You need to have a startup script in /etc/init.d for the service to ensure update-rc.d works fine.
