[clug] Starting services in ubuntu

[David Gibson]

On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 09:37:18AM +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> On 11 May 2005, "Crosskey, Jason (DPS)" <Jason.Crosskey at aph.gov.au> wrote:
> > Does ubuntu have any commands like service and chkcfg in RH to start
> > services. I was trying to start apache using /etc/init.d/apache2 but
> > didn't work. I also couldn't find the start script in rc3.d. Do I need
> > to create a link the old way?
> 
> It does not have a service command.   Just running 
> 
>   /etc/init.d/apache2 start
> 
> should do it; have a look in the apache error log and see if something
> is preventing it starting.  If all else fails do
> 
>   sh -x /etc/init.d/apache2 start
> 
> to get some debugging information
> 
> I sometimes find it useful to define a service command like this:
> 
>   $ sudo -s
>   # echo '/etc/init.d/$*' > /usr/local/bin/service
>   # chmod +x /usr/local/bin/service

And like Debian, from which it is derived, it has the update-rc.d
command which theoretically does something similar to chkconfig.
However, it's really designed for use from package scripts, not by the
user, and I, for one, have never figured out how to drive it usefully.

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