On 7/28/06, Ouattara Oumar Aziz <<a href="mailto:wattazoum@gmail.com">wattazoum@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> > 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?</blockquote><div> They do provide it, it just has a different name. It's called /etc/init.d/ </div> /etc/init.d/<servicename> restart service <servicename> restart :) <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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. Cheers -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- Regards, Russ