update-rc.d on Amazon Linux

Question

I am fairly new to system administration and I am simply trying to make sure nginx runs at startup on my Amazon EC2 instance (running Amazon linux)

I have placed the script in /etc/init.d, but it seems that Amazon linux does not come with the update-rc.d command. So how do I ensure the script will run at startup?

score 43 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 30 '11 at 04:56

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The Amazon Linux (which is essentially CentOS, which is essentially Red Hat) equivalent of update-rc.d is chkconfig. http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/rhel5-update-rcd-command/

chkconfig --add nginx
chkconfig nginx on

answered Dec 30 '11 at 04:56

ceejayoz

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Thank you so much! What if I am trying to add something that requires a command after it? Such as 'mysqld start' – Andrew Guenther Dec 30 '11 at 05:05
It'll already automatically do each enabled service's `start` command on startup, and `stop` on shutdown. – ceejayoz Dec 30 '11 at 05:08

update-rc.d on Amazon Linux

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