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SERVICE(8)                             System Manager's Manual                            SERVICE(8)

NAME
       service - run a System V init script

SYNOPSIS
       service SCRIPT COMMAND [OPTIONS]

       service --status-all

       service --help | -h | --version

DESCRIPTION
       service  runs a System V init script or systemd unit in as predictable an environment as pos‐
       sible, removing most environment variables and with the current working directory set to /.

       The SCRIPT parameter specifies a System V init script, located in /etc/init.d/SCRIPT, or  the
       name  of  a  systemd  unit.  The  existence of a systemd unit of the same name as a script in
       /etc/init.d will cause the unit to take precedence over the  init.d  script.   The  supported
       values  of  COMMAND  depend on the invoked script. service passes COMMAND  and OPTIONS to the
       init script unmodified. For systemd units, start, stop, status, and reload are passed through
       to their systemctl/initctl equivalents.

       All scripts should support at least the start and stop commands.  As a special case, if  COM‐
       MAND  is  --full-restart, the script is run twice, first with the stop command, then with the
       start command. Note, that  unlike  update-rc.d(8),  service  does  not  check  /usr/sbin/pol‐
       icy-rc.d.

       service  --status-all  runs all init scripts, in alphabetical order, with the status command.
       The status is [ + ] for running services, [ - ] for stopped services and [ ? ]  for  services
       without a status command.  This option only calls status for sysvinit jobs.

EXIT CODES
       service calls the init script and returns the status returned by it.

FILES
       /etc/init.d
              The directory containing System V init scripts.

       /{lib,run,etc}/systemd/system
              The directories containing systemd units.

ENVIRONMENT
       LANG, LANGUAGE, LC_CTYPE, LC_NUMERIC, LC_TIME, LC_COLLATE, LC_MONETARY, LC_MESSAGES, LC_PA‐
       PER, LC_NAME, LC_ADDRESS, LC_TELEPHONE, LC_MEASUREMENT, LC_IDENTIFICATION, LC_ALL, TERM, PATH
              The only environment variables passed to the init scripts.

SEE ALSO
       /etc/init.d/skeleton
       update-rc.d(8)
       init(8)
       invoke-rc.d(8)
       systemctl(1)


AUTHOR
       Miloslav Trmac <mitr AT redhat.com>, Petter Reinholdtsen <pere AT hungry.com>

       License: GNU General Public License v2 (GPLv2)

COPYRIGHT
       2006 Red Hat, Inc.,  Petter Reinholdtsen <pere AT hungry.com>


Jan 2006                                                                                  SERVICE(8)