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Re: Debian equivalent to service?



Kevin Mark wrote:
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 01:37:40PM -0800, Rob Blomquist wrote:

Under RH, to type "service sensord restart" will kill and restart sensord.

I can't find an equivalent command. Is there one? Otherwise, how to I kill and restart a service? Can I find a list of running services, the same as "service -s"?

Rob


Hi Rob,
on debian there are a few redhatism that have not been created: this is
one of them. here are a few:
1) rh has runlevels with special meanings, debian makes 2-5 the same
with 2 being the default with no special network/x/etc meaning

These distinctions (at least 3 and 5) are actually useful when debugging problems with your X config. It just saves a step on some activity.

On debian, I have to kill gdm, fiddle, and restart it.

2) no 'service ....'instead we use /etc/init.d/service start/stop/restart
and AFAICT no 'status'

Running both systems, status is another feature that's very useful.

3) no tool like the runlevel/services editor in rh. the tools are there
but they dont do it the rh way

What are the "official" debian tools for doing this stuff? I use wajig for starting and stopping services manually. It's very useful, though hardly a "standard" tool.

Having default startup numbers in the init scripts is handy at times as well.

I usually find redhat's stuff easier to configure. On the other hand, the debian package repository is second to none, which is why I run it.

Jerry Quinn



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