Tag Archive | update-rc.d

Start a service on boot Ubuntu

Jul23

Here are the commands needed to set a service to start on boot.

Tested on Ubuntu Server 14.04 but should work just fine on older versions as well.

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root@t605:/# update-rc.d ntp enable
update-rc.d: warning:  start runlevel arguments (none) do not match ntp Default-Start values (2 3 4 5)
update-rc.d: warning:  stop runlevel arguments (none) do not match ntp Default-Stop values (1)
 Enabling system startup links for /etc/init.d/ntp ...
 Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/ntp ...
   /etc/rc1.d/K77ntp
   /etc/rc2.d/S23ntp
   /etc/rc3.d/S23ntp
   /etc/rc4.d/S23ntp
   /etc/rc5.d/S23ntp
 Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/ntp ...
   /etc/rc1.d/K77ntp -> ../init.d/ntp
   /etc/rc2.d/S23ntp -> ../init.d/ntp
   /etc/rc3.d/S23ntp -> ../init.d/ntp
   /etc/rc4.d/S23ntp -> ../init.d/ntp
   /etc/rc5.d/S23ntp -> ../init.d/ntp
 
 
usage: update-rc.d [-n] [-f] <basename> remove
       update-rc.d [-n] <basename> defaults [NN | SS KK]
       update-rc.d [-n] <basename> start|stop NN runlvl [runlvl] [...] .
       update-rc.d [-n] <basename> disable|enable [S|2|3|4|5]
                -n: not really
                -f: force
 
The disable|enable API is not stable and might change in the future.