service restart

[Peter Garrett]

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:31:23 -0300
Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:

> Peter Garrett wrote:
> 
> > 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.
>  
> Since "service" seemed like such a clean way to do it, I created a symlink
> on my system for /usr/sbin/service -> invoke-rc.d

Derek, that's *way* too sensible ;-)

How are we going to maintain the mystique of *nix if everyone starts
thinking so logically ? *grin*

Peter