Start Stop Restart Services

Sifvion · 09-12-2002, 11:28 AM

Normally how you guys start stop and restart services like httpd and so on? service httpd restart doesnt work on me, it say command not found!

trickykid · 09-12-2002, 12:15 PM

Have you tried givng the full path to the rc.d directory ? How exactly are you trying to restart ?? Have you tried a stop then a start ??

NSKL · 09-12-2002, 02:40 PM

cd /etc/rc.d
./rc.nfsd stop would stop NFS server
./rc.httpd stop would stop http daemon
Make sure rc.* have execute permissions (if you want to run them) and dont forget the "./" before the rc filename. ./ - means execute file but im sure you know this already

Hope that helps
-NSKL

Sifvion · 09-12-2002, 06:48 PM

how about proftpd? i dont see any rc.proftpd in /etc/rc.d

NSKL · 09-13-2002, 10:26 AM

Thats probably cuz proftpd is started by another daemon, posibly inetd. Look through rc.inet2 and /etc/inetd.conf and you will find the line that starts the FTP services. Comment it out and send inetd a HUP signal to restart it (or simply restart your box) so it re-reads its configuration. Hope that helps
-NSKL

Sifvion · 09-13-2002, 09:55 PM

how to you send a HUP signal to restart it? And restart my box? No Way server shouldnt restart in anyway.

NSKL · 09-14-2002, 03:13 AM

You EITHER send a HUP or you restart your box.
check the beggining of /etc/inetd.conf and you will find instructions to send a HUP to the server and restart it.
I suggest you read through whole of inetd.conf to see the services it starts so you will know for next time.
HTH
-NSKL