Monday, May 7, 2007

Starting, Stoping and Restarting Services in Linux

To start, stop and restart a service in ubuntu (probaly in all other distros), you go to /etc/init.d, there you have the scripts to all the services (ex: dhcp, newtworking, ...).

For example if you want to stop the dhcp service you just need to do :

# sudo /etc/init.d/dhcp stop

to start it again do:

# sudo /etc/init.d/dhcp start

to restart it do:

# sudo /etc/init.d/dhcp restart

For the other services you just change "dhcp" to the name service script in /etc/init.d.
As you migth already noticed, you can see which services you have by seeing which scripts exist in /etc/init.d.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Interesting to know.