Configure network services to start automatically at boot

This a another fairly simple objective, which is related to this objective.
The command needed to set network services to start automatically at boot is chkconfig.
If you run this command you will get a list of all network services and whether they are set to run for a particular runlevel:

abrtd           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:off   5:on    6:off
acpid           0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
atd             0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

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xinetd          0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
ypbind          0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off

You can also check a particular service with:

chkconfig --list servicename

 In order to set a service to start at boot for runlevels 3 & 5 you would use this:

chkconfig --level 35 servicename on

If you want to set the service to run on all runlevels, just issue this command:

chkconfig  servicename on

Note that this will not set the service to run for runlevels 0,1 and 6.

If you don't like chkconfig, there is an alternative command and with a terminal user interface as well :)

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