Suse & OpenSuse : Tips, Tricks, Tutorials, How Tos and Troubleshooting

How to start services automatically at boot?

In the traditional sense, when we want to include a new service at boot time, we looked into the /etc/init.d/ directory and figure out where to put it.  (I tend to look and figure it out as it changes over the years).

Manually Starting and Stopping Services in Suse/OpenSuse

YaST provides a extremely easy way for system administrators to manage which services run at boot. The YaST Runlevel Editor module is easy to understand and gives you important information about each service. You can choose to start or stop a process with nothing more than a mouse click.