Making a service autostart on Ubuntu, Debian, Oralce Linux, CentOs and Red Hat (Fedora and RHEL)

For RedHat based distributions (CentOS, Oracle Linux, Fedora) execute (as root):

chkconfig servicename on


For Debian based distributions (Ubuntu) execute (as root):

update-rc.d servicename defaults

Provided by: Forthscale systems, Linux support team