NAME¶

service - run service

SYNOPSIS¶

service SERVICE ACTION [OPTIONS]
service --status-all
service --help | -h

DEPRECATED¶

The service command has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release. It is superseded by systemctl(1).

DESCRIPTION¶

The SERVICE parameter specifies a systemd service name to operate on. The supported values of ACTION depend on the specified service. The actions start, stop, reload, restart, try-restart, force-reload, and status are forwarded to systemctl, OPTIONS are ignored in that case.

The --status-all option displays the status of all loaded service units.

HISTORY¶

service used to run System V init scripts in a predictable environment.

USE AS rc* WRAPPER¶

SUSE Linux distributions used to have convenience symlinks to call System V init scripts, for example /usr/sbin/rcexample -> /etc/init.d/example. With the move to systemd this has been deprecated and the rc* symlinks will be removed.

SEE ALSO¶

chkconfig(8), systemctl(1) systemd.service(5)