[GRLUG] apache and mysql run at startup

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 11:45:15PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
> <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 23:31 -0400, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> >> (Running Ubuntu 11.04 with classic Gnome desktop.)
> >> I've installed Ubuntu versions of apache and mysql on 11.04. But they
> >> won't run at startup. I've tried re-installing a couple of times, but
> >> that didn't help.
> >
> > Re-installing never helps; don't do that.
> 
> At best, dpkg-reconfigure $packagename might help.
> 
> >> Stuff I've looked at seems to suggest that the Ubuntu installations are
> >> supposed to be set to run at startup.
> >
> > The standard way to do this is "chkconfig {servicename} on" to toggle a
> > service to auto-start for the current run-level.
> 
> Ubuntu. No 'chkconfig'. Is that a Red Hat thing?

I believe SUSE has it, too, but yes, it's a RedHat thing.  (Can, I add, a
few, more, co,mm,as?)

I remember those days like they were...a decade ago.  :-)
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