NAME¶

service - run service

SYNOPSIS¶

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

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. Other actions may be defined in /usr/lib/initscripts/legacy-actions. Legacy actions are called directly and OPTIONS are passed on the command line.

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

FILES¶

/usr/lib/initscripts/legacy-actions
Directory containing System V legacy actions

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 the service command can be used as wrapper for systemctl instead. For example /usr/sbin/rcexample -> /usr/sbin/service.

SEE ALSO¶

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