Nginx HTTP Server - Fourth Edition

Red Hat-based distributions

For the Red Hat-based systems family, the command differs, but you get an additional tool for managing system startup. Adding the service can be done via the following command:

[[e-mail] ~]# chkconfig nginx on

Once that is done, you can then verify the runlevels for the service:

[[e-mail] ~]# chkconfig --list nginxNginx  0:off   1:off   2:on    3:off   4:on    5:on    6:off

Another tool will be useful to you for managing system services, namely, ntsysv. It lists all services scheduled to be executed on system startup and allows you to enable or disable them at will:

ntsysv requires root privileges to be executed. ...