How to configure Elasticsearch to start at boot?

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How do you make Elasticsearch start at boot time on Ubuntu 16.04? I've installed elasticsearch from the standard repo with:

sudo apt-get install elasticsearch

and it works fine. However, I have to manually start it with:

sudo service elasticsearch start

after I login. I've tried the usually trick for configuring services to start at boot with:

sudo update-rc.d elasticsearch defaults
sudo update-rc.d elasticsearch enable

but that's done nothing.

$ systemctl status elasticsearch
* elasticsearch.service - Elasticsearch
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Sun 2017-02-05 17:11:59 EST; 8h ago
     Docs: http://www.elastic.co
 Main PID: 9133 (java)
   CGroup: /system.slice/elasticsearch.service
           `-9133 /usr/bin/java -Xms2g -Xmx2g -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=75 -XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly -XX:+DisableExplicitGC -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch -server -Xss1m -Djava.awt.headless=true -Dfile.encod

sudo service elasticsearch enable may do the trick – bistoco Feb 05 '17 at 23:36 — bistoco, Feb 05 '17 at 23:36
What does systemctl status elasticsearch report? – muru Feb 06 '17 at 01:54 — muru, Feb 06 '17 at 01:54
@muru, I've updated my question. – Cerin Feb 06 '17 at 06:54 — Cerin, Feb 06 '17 at 06:54
You need systemctl enable elasticsearch – muru Feb 06 '17 at 06:57 — muru, Feb 06 '17 at 06:57

How to configure Elasticsearch to start at boot?

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