service

service

service script common options:

• start
• stop
• restart
• status

Scripts can accept more or less options. Some scripts will echo to you a usage statement if you supply no option, as shown here:

[user@acc ~]$ /sbin/service httpd
Usage: httpd {start|stop|restart|condrestart|reload|status|fullstatus|graceful|help|configtest}

service usage example

[user@acc ~]$ /sbin/service httpd status
httpd (pid 31079 30656 27256 25503 20890 12318 12317 12312 7270 5787 4727) is running...

service example explained

• service starts the init script named (i.e. httpd ) which is located in /etc/init.d
• the option status is sent to the httpd script
• httpd returns the following line showing the PID's of httpd processes running

-- RobertSajan - 03 Oct 2008