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Manage system startup services

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Manage system startup services

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- [Instructor] After the system boots there's still a little bit more process that happens before the machine is in a state where we can use it. While the system is starting and bringing up hardware and system services we can see the status messages fly by. Sometimes this process is covered by a nice graphic or progress bar. On CentOS you can press escape to switch between the progress meter and the output here. I've slowed things down a bit so we can kind of see what's happening but these logs will also appear in /var/log/boot.log and D message for later review. Aside from the hardware that the system starts up you can control what services start up with the system like networking, database servers, web servers the firewall, and so on. Here on CentOS with the systemd service manager we can control whether these services start up at boot or not with the systemctl command. We can take a look at what's active right now with just systemctl by itself. This shows me the overall state of…

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