{"id":602,"date":"2007-08-03T02:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-03T07:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/03\/embracing-chkconfig-to-auto-start-services-like-mysql-on-rhelcentosfedoraetc"},"modified":"2007-08-03T02:02:04","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T07:02:04","slug":"embracing-chkconfig-to-auto-start-services-like-mysql-on-rhelcentosfedoraetc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/03\/embracing-chkconfig-to-auto-start-services-like-mysql-on-rhelcentosfedoraetc","title":{"rendered":"Embracing chkconfig to auto-start services (like mysql) on RHEL\/CentOS\/Fedora\/etc."},"content":{"rendered":"

I was at MODM<\/a>4 yesterday, and as always, great fun was had. One common recurring theme though, was getting MySQL to start automatically upon a Linux server’s restart, something which I would have thought just came pretty naturally to sys-admin types. Upon further probing, these systems were all generally CentOS or RHEL based, and it wasn’t just MySQL that gave them problems – it was anything they’d installed out of the stock packages (lighttpd<\/a> was a popular Apache replacement, that suffered from the same fate).<\/p>\n

While I didn’t recollect the exact part of the manual<\/a> it was stored in, I was informing everyone to make use of the chkconfig<\/tt> tool. Its really as simple as making sure there exists a \/etc\/init.d\/mysql<\/tt> (it must be executable – chmod +x), doing a chkconfig --add mysql<\/tt> and making sure that it starts up at the correct runlevels (typically 3, 4 and 5). A simple chkconfig --level 345 mysql on<\/tt> and you’re ready to rock. Repeat, rinse for lighttpd or anything else, that has a startup script, really.<\/p>\n

And read the manual – section 2.4.16.2.2. Starting and Stopping MySQL Automatically<\/a>. chkconfig<\/a>‘s manual page is a little sparse, so consider some of the Red Hat Knowledgebase entries: How do I use chkconfig to enable a script for a service that accepts start, stop, and status options?<\/a> and Why does an installed service, like ypbind, not show up in the chkconfig list, but I am able to start it manually?<\/a> Kudos to Red Hat’s open KB as well…<\/p>\n

Technorati Tags: chkconfig<\/a>, rhel<\/a>, centos<\/a>, fedora<\/a>, mysql<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was at MODM4 yesterday, and as always, great fun was had. One common recurring theme though, was getting MySQL to start automatically upon a Linux server’s restart, something which I would have thought just came pretty naturally to sys-admin types. Upon further probing, these systems were all generally CentOS or RHEL based, and it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysql"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-9I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}