How To Configure a Linux Service to Start Automatically After a Crash or Reboot

This tutorial shows you how to configure system services to automatically restart after a crash or a server reboot. We cover the three most common init systems in this tutorial: System V, Upstart, and systemd.

In this second tutorial about starting Linux services automatically, we’ll take a step back and explain init processes in more detail. You should gain a good understanding of how they control a daemon’s start-up behavior. We’ll see how to do this from three different init systems: System V, Upstart, and systemd.