Command Line Tools
Below is a table of example commands for managing services. The apache/httpd service is used as an example.
Task | Red Hat / Fedora | Ubuntu | Ubuntu |
Starting/stopping services immediately | service httpd start | invoke-rc.d apache start | service apache start |
Enabling a service at boot | chkconfig httpd on | update-rc.d apache defaults | sysv-rc-conf apache on |
Disabling a service at boot | chkconfig httpd off | update-rc.d apache purge | sysv-rc-conf apache off |