service restart

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

On 7/28/06, Ouattara Oumar Aziz <wattazoum at gmail.com> 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.
> > TIA
> > Paul
> >
> It's been twice in a month that someone asks for that script. Do ubuntu
> intend to provide it?


They do provide it, it just has a different name. It's called /etc/init.d/

/etc/init.d/<servicename> restart
service <servicename> restart

:)


Paul > I took mandriva service script and put it on Ubuntu, it runs
> well. uncompress the service.tar.gz , run ./install to install and
> ./uninstall to uninstall. It will install the script in /usr/local/bin.
> service is bash_completion compliant.
>
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Regards,
Russ
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