The “service” command is used to manage services or daemons running on a server. They are programs or processes that run in the background and provide specific functionality to the system, such as network services, web servers, or database servers.
- About service: To run a System V init script
- Comes From :
- Configuration Files:
- Path:
Examples:
1. To status of a program
| $ service vsftpd status |
2. To start a service
| $ service vsftpd start |
3. To stop a service
| $ service vsftpd stop |
4. To restart a service
| $ service vsftpd restart |
5. To see the status fo all the programs
| $ service –status-all |
6. To see the help
| $ service -h $ service –help |
7. To see the version
| $ service –version |
Related Commands: chkconfig, ntsysv
