Manual: service

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 possible, removing most envi‐
       ronment 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	COMMAND	 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/policy-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_PAPER, 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 , Petter Reinholdtsen 

       License: GNU General Public License v2 (GPLv2)

Copyright
       2006 Red Hat, Inc.,  Petter Reinholdtsen 

Jan 2006													  service(8)