Linux Services Reload VS Restart

June 28, 2024

Restarting a Linux a service stops and then restarts the service, it breaks all existing connections to the service by stopping the service, and then restarts the service. Reloading a service on the other hand does not break existing services, it simply reloads the service configuration. and new connections will run based off of the reloaded configuration. Hope you enjoyed!

Restarting a Linux Service

							
							
					sudo systemctl restart <servicename> # or
sudo service <servicename> restart

Reloading a Linux Service

							
							
					sudo systemctl reload <servicename> # or
sudo service <servicename> reload

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Linux Services Reload VS Restart