How to start a service on boot with CentOS6?

Introduction

This article will walk you through starting a service on boot when using CentOS6.

Procedure

In CentOS6, the 'chkconfig' command is used to enable services to start on boot. The syntax is:

chkconfig $service on

We can use the 'nscd' service as an example:

chkconfig nscd on

and once that has been turned on, we can use the following to check that it was enabled:

[root@cent6 ~]# chkconfig nscd on
[root@cent6 ~]# chkconfig --list | grep nscd
nscd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off