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Basic Linux Service Commands

Basic Linux Service Commands

  • June 29, 2024

This tutorial goes through basic Linux service commands including starting, stopping, reloading, restarting, disabling, enabling, and checking status of services on a Linux machine.

Starting Services

For most services on a Linux machine, you can start them via simply entering: 

							
							
					sudo systemctl start <service_name> # or
sudo service <service_name> start

Stopping Services

The same goes for stopping, just replace start with stop as so:

							
							
					sudo systemctl stop <service_name> # or
sudo service <service_name> stop

Reloading & Restarting Services

And likewise for reloading and restarting services:

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

# for reloading it would be 

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

# restarting services stops the service entirely while reloading simply reloads conf files without breaking existing connections

Enabling & Disabling Services

By now you get the idea:

							
							
					sudo systemctl enable <service_name> # or
sudo service <service_name> enable

# for disabling it would be 

sudo systemctl disable <service_name> # or
sudo service <service_name> disable

Checking Status

Likewise:

							
							
					sudo systemctl status <service_name> # or
sudo service <service_name> status

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