The difference between /etc/init.d/progname start and progname start

[Danilo Piazzalunga]

Behrang Saeedzadeh wrote:
> BTW - A friend of mine told me that I can write
> 
> service {whatever} start|stop|restart
> 
> in Fedora that is a short form of the
> 
> /etc/init.d/{whatever} start|stop|restart
> 
> Do I need to do something special in Ubuntu inorder to be able to use
> the "service" command?

There is 'invoke-rc.d {whatever} start|stop|restart|...'. See invoke-rc.d(8)
for a better explaination than I would be able to give ;-)

Anyway, I would suppose that the service command is mostly the RH equivalent
of invoke-rc.d.

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