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service httpd stop
service httpd start
service httpd restart
to temporarily stop or start services, though they will resume on reboot to whatever chkconfig is set to. I think these actually do the same thing as Crashed_Agains /etc/init.d scripts.
Yup, service is just a shell script that calls the /etc/init.d scripts. But the potential advantage is that /sbin (where lies service) is by default in the root path.
Distribution: Debian Based only but have tried most others.
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Like everyone else said, use
service (service name) (Stop,Start,Restart)
All the start and stop scripts are located in /etc/init.d directory so you could just go there and type the script name and either stop and start.
Man chkconfig if you want to change what runlevel each service runs at. So if it's a console only box and no GUI you want to have it on for runlevl 3, and if it's a gui box have it on for both 3 and 5.
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