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service

Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: Sep 2014
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NAME

service - run service

SYNOPSIS

       service SERVICE ACTION [OPTIONS]

       service --status-all

       service --help | -h

DESCRIPTION

The SERVICE parameter specifies a systemd service name to operate on.The supported values of ACTION depend on the specified service.The actions start, stop, reload, restart, try-restart, force-reload, and statusare forwarded to systemctl, OPTIONS are ignored in that case.Other actions may be defined in /usr/lib/initscripts/legacy-actions. Legacyactions are called directly and OPTIONS are passed on the command line.

The --status-all option displays the status of all loaded service units.

FILES

/usr/lib/initscripts/legacy-actions
Directory containing System V legacy actions

HISTORY

service used to run System V init scripts in a predictable environment.

USE AS rc* WRAPPER

SUSE Linux distributions used to have convenience symlinks to callSystem V init scripts, for example /usr/sbin/rcexample ->/etc/init.d/example. With the move to systemd the service commandcan be used as wrapper for systemctl instead. For example/usr/sbin/rcexample -> /usr/sbin/service.

.SHSEE ALSOchkconfig(8),systemctl(1)systemd.service(5)

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