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 |