As most distributions have moved to systemd, here’s an example startup script that you may customize for your installation. This has been tested to work on CentOS 7. Contents of /etc/systemd/system/freepbx.service [Unit] Description=FreePBX VoIP Server After=mariadb.service [Service] Type=oneshot RemainAfterExit=yes ExecStart=/usr/sbin/fwconsole start -q ExecStop=/usr/sbin/fwconsole stop -q [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target   From there . . . Read more