starting and stopping redis

[Colin Law]

On Fri, 25 Sep 2020 at 23:48, Nicholas Saunders
<saunders.nicholas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/25/20 3:40 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
> > On 2020-09-25 16:48, Nicholas Saunders wrote:
> >> I was unable to start/stop redis using the "service" command below
> >> earlier:
> > ...
> >> but it seems to be working now.  Is that odd to not be able to use the
> >> service command?
> >>
> >> I earlier tried systmctl as well, no luck at the time.  I had to
> >> resort to that first command.  Perhaps using the init.d file (?)
> >> explicitly connected up systemctl and service?
> >
> > One thing you don't mention is which version of Ubuntu this is.  I
> > wouldn't be terribly surprised for an older version to have issues.  A
> > newer one, though, should be able to cope.  I might suggest looking in
> > the syslog or redis logfile (if there is one) to look for clues.  I'd
> > also recommend going with systemctl, as service is, if not actually
> > deprecated, at least not what systemd uses by default.
> >
> > -Ken
>
>
> It's Ubuntu 20.04, for what it's worth.  I was surprised that systmctl
> didn't work; I'll check the logs as suggested.

What does
apt policy redis
show?

Colin