service restart

[Peter Garrett]

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:19:13 -0400
Paul Kaplan <pkaplan1 at comcast.net> wrote:

> What is the command line to start, stop or restart a specific service.  On 
> another distro I used:
> service <servicename> restart
> but "service" doesn't seem to be a command in kubuntu.

Usually  sudo /etc/init.d/<name-of-service> start | stop | restart
Or          sudo invoke-rc.d <name-of-service> start | stop | restart

which does the same thing.

Sometimes also has other options like reload or force-reload etc depending
on the service concerned.

Peter