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CentOS 6 Linux Server Cookbook

By : Jonathan Hobson
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CentOS 6 Linux Server Cookbook

By: Jonathan Hobson

Overview of this book

CentOS is a community-based enterprise class operating system and this book will provide a series of practical solutions that will not only show you how to install and maintain CentOS as a server, but to explore this well-known Linux distribution with the intention of tackling many common issues by providing some tricks of the trade in order to simplify the task of building a server."CentOS 6 Linux Server Cookbook" is a practical guide to installation, configuration, administration, and maintenance. This is a one-stop-shop to all things CentOS, so regardless as to whether you need a mail server, web server, database server, domain server or a file sharing platform, this book provides a comprehensive series of starting points that will give you direct access to the inner workings of this open source, community-based enterprise server."CentOS 6 Linux Server Cookbook" is a practical guide to the complete installation, configuration, administration, and maintenance of one of the world's most popular community-based enterprise servers.From installation to configuration, this book of recipes will take you on a journey to explore inner workings of CentOS server. Within this book you will learn how to install CentOS in variety of settings, enhance your installation with the correct tools of the trade and prepare your server to fulfil almost any role you could ever need.By discovering more about time, networking, package management, system management and security, this book will serve to show you how to get the very best from this freely available, open source server by presenting a series of solutions that will enable you to master the art of building your very own web, database, mail, domain name, file sharing services.CentOS 6 Linux Server Cookbook is a hands-on approach to installing, configuring and managing this ever popular community based enterprise server. By taking you from installation to customization this book will serve all Linux professionals and enthusiasts alike by providing you with a practical guide to using CentOS as a world-class server solution that is capable of delivering your mail, web, ftp, domain and file sharing services.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
CentOS 6 Linux Server Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using chkconfig to enable a custom service at boot


In this recipe we will consider the practice of using the chkconfig management tool in order to enable a custom service at boot.

CentOS provides us with a simple command-line tool for managing services that are started during the various runlevels of your system (discussed in Chapter 1, Installing CentOS). Most applications and services will include their own initialization script and these will be installed to /etc/init.d, but over the life time of your server you may wish to use or write your own custom service (from a script or for a bespoke application) that will require manual installation. You may even want to troubleshoot an existing service, but whatever your reasons, it is the purpose of this recipe to show you how it can be achieved.

Getting ready

To complete this recipe you will require a minimal installation of the CentOS 6 operating system with root privileges and a console-based text editor of your choice. It is assumed that...