{"id":8599,"date":"2024-03-14T08:25:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T08:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-do-you-set-services-to-start-automatically-on-boot-in-ubuntu\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T07:10:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T07:10:02","slug":"how-do-you-set-services-to-start-automatically-on-boot-in-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-do-you-set-services-to-start-automatically-on-boot-in-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Auto-Start Ubuntu Services on Boot"},"content":{"rendered":"

To set the service to start automatically when the computer is turned on, you can follow these steps:<\/p>\n

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  1. Open the terminal and use the following command to view the currently installed services.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    sudo systemctl list-units --type=service\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
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    1. Find the service you want to set to start automatically at boot, and use the following command to enable auto-start:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
      sudo systemctl enable <service-name>\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
      For instance, if you want to set up nginx service to start automatically when the computer boots up, you can use the following command:<\/p>\n
      sudo systemctl enable nginx\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
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      1. Confirm that the service has been started and set to automatically start by using the following command:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
        sudo systemctl is-enabled <service-name>\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
        For example, check if the nginx service has been set to start automatically.<\/p>\n
        sudo systemctl is-enabled nginx\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
        You can configure services to start automatically on boot in Ubuntu by following the steps above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
        To set the service to start automatically when the computer is turned on, you can follow these steps: Open the terminal and use the following command to view the currently installed services. sudo systemctl list-units –type=service Find the service you want to set to start automatically at boot, and use the following command to enable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6314,11678,940,1661,288],"class_list":["post-8599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-service-management","tag-startup","tag-systemctl","tag-systemd","tag-ubuntu"],"yoast_head":"\nAuto-Start Ubuntu Services on Boot - Blog - Silicon Cloud<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Easily enable Ubuntu services to auto-start on boot using systemctl. 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