Start/Stop Services

Verbal Kint · 06-16-2007, 02:58 PM

Can someone please tell me how to view/start/stop services using Ubuntu 7.04. I used to have Fedora and typed

"service httpd status"
"service httpd start"
"service httpd stop"

Thanks!

slakmagik · 06-16-2007, 03:08 PM

In Debian you can install 'sysvconfig', which includes 'service' - probably the same for Ubuntu - and there are other similar-type applications you can search the package databases for.

Verbal Kint · 06-16-2007, 03:18 PM

Thanks, now I have a new problem :-p

I used to run "service httpd status/stop/start" with FEdora, with Ubuntu I get "httpd: unrecognized service"

Any ideas?

btmiller · 06-16-2007, 03:26 PM

Do you have Apache installed?You probably don't have Apache 2 installed. You can check with "dpkg -l" and see if you see the Apache

Even if you do have Apache installed, on my Kubuntu box the service names are apache and apache2 (depending on which version is installed), not httpd.

trent73 · 06-21-2007, 06:56 AM

Starting and Stopping Startup Services - Debian & Ubuntu

(where apache2 is the service we want to change at startup)

Stop Apache on all runlevels
sudo update-rc.d -f apache2 remove

Start apache2 on all runlevels
# update-rc.d apache2 defaults

which is the same as...

# update-rc.d apache2 start 20 2 3 4 5 . stop 80 0 1 6 .

The periods '.' are important and indicates end of sequences

To start apache2 only in runlevel 5
# update-rc.d apache2 start 20 5 . stop 80 0 1 2 3 4 6 .

Use sysv-rc-conf - and take the easy way out!
$ sudo apt-get install sysv-rc-conf
$ sudo sysv-rc-conf

Good-luck!