Starting services
 

I'm trying to get openswan to work. My next step says to run "service ipsec start"
When I try this I get:
service: command not found

I am doing this as root. I went to root doing su -
I also did a whereis service and it could not find it. This is normally located in sbin from what I've been reading. Is there something I need to install? I'm running Kubuntu...


Regards,

Trevor

In addition to what I've already put in I just checked and initscripts is installed, but for some reason doesn't contian /sbin/service

I dont know about Kubuntu but services can also be started this way

/etc/init.d/servicename start

So for you it will be

/etc/init.d/ipsec start


And /sbin/service comes as a part of initscripts package.
So you can check if the package is installed in your PC.

service is not included in all distributions. kubuntu is based on debian which does not use the service command.

Use instead:
/etc/init.d/ipsec start

that's excatly what I needed! Thanks for all your help!

What distro do you use?
Red Hat you just go
Applications > System Settings > Services > httpd > Start

Done.