Start on system startup

Start RethinkDB at system startup

This document explains how to set up RethinkDB to run as a system service on supported operating systems, automatically launching on boot. For general instructions on starting RethinkDB, see Start a RethinkDB server.

In general, you’ll have to follow these steps:

• Install RethinkDB as a service for your operating system. (This document describes how to do that for both init.d and systemd-based Linux distributions, as well as OS X using launchd. Depending on how you’ve installed RethinkDB, this may already be done for you.)
• Create a RethinkDB configuration file for each RethinkDB instance running on this physical server.

Startup with init.d

RethinkDB packages automatically