How to Add and Remove Services from Startup on Fedora Linux

This guide explains how to add and remove services from starting automatically each time you boot your PC running Fedora Linux.

Fedora Core Linux and other flavors of Linux that are based on Red Hat Linux ship with a useful utility called ntsysv which provides users with a simple textual interactive interface which enables them to see a list of services. You can see which services are set to start at boot and which are not. You can then modify the settings and add and remove services from startup. There are a number of ways you can add and remove services from starting at boot, but over time I have found ntsysv to be easy to use and effective.

Let’s look at ntsysv in a bit of detail. There is no installation required as ntsysv ships with just about every Red Hat Linux system as part of the Red Hat tools. Note: you should be careful to not enable or disable any services that will affect you server adversely. That said, let’s move on to using ntsysv. Run the following command to bring up the ntsysv interface:

# ntsysv

You should see a screen like the one in the image above. This will contain a list of services available on your computer. Some services will be checked with a *. These are the services that have been set to start at boot. You can scroll up and down the list and when you select a service that you want to either enable or disable you can hit the Spacebar button on your keyboard to check or uncheck it. Once you are done make the changes you want hit the Tab button on the keyboard to navigate to the Ok and Cancel buttons. Select Ok and hit the Spacebar to have the settings saved. You will require to reboot your server for the settings to kick in.

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