Managing Linux Services

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Red Hat / CentOS

  1. Display all the available services 
    /sbin/chkconfig --list
  2. Enable the service 
    /sbin/chkconfig [name] on
  3. Disable the service 
    /sbin/chkconfig [name] off
  4. Start the background service 
    /sbin/service [name] start
  5. Stop the background service 
    /sbin/service [name] stop
  6. Restart the background service 
    /sbin/service [name] restart
  7. Display the background service status 
    /sbin/service [name] status

Ubuntu

  1. Display all the available services 
    N/A
  2. Enable the service 
    /usr/sbin/update-rc.d [name] defaults
  3. Disable the service 
    /usr/sbin/update-rc.d -f [name] remove
  4. Start the background service 
    /usr/sbin/service [name] start
  5. Stop the background service 
    /usr/sbin/service [name] stop
  6. Restart the background service 
    /usr/sbin/service [name] restart
  7. Display the background service status 
    /usr/sbin/service [name] status