CentOS 6: Setup SSH to run on startup
By default with CentOS 6 SSH is not configured to run on startup.
Meaning you will have to activate the service every time before being able to use SSH on the CentOS server.
To enable SSH to run on boot run the following command.
chkconfig sshd on
This can be applied to any service you want to run on boot. Once this is done restart the server and SSH will be started.
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9 Comments on "CentOS 6: Setup SSH to run on startup"
Fantastic, just what i needed
daniel, this is the second time you are making my life easier.
Keep up the good work !
No need to restart the server. Just do:
service sshd start
Restarting the server will allow you to test to make sure SSH is working on boot.
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Nice suggestion, but still doesn’t seem to work on my CentOS 6.4 box. Whenever I restart the system, the sshd service shows up as ‘dead’. If I do a manual start, all is well, but I can’t for the life of me get it to start automatically on reboot.
Try
systemctl enable sshd
that works as well i believe
Thanks! Worked great.