Starting Services
 

When I'm in terminal it doesnt reconize service so I can start a service. I remember do it that way about a month ago. What am I doing wrong...I've installed all the packages help please!

i don't understand what you mean "recognise service"? what are you actually doing??

On some distributions you can start services like:

service portmap start

service httpd start

(for example)

Sorry didnt explain very well. Bash is what I get when I type in service. And Im using Redhat 9.0

It's telling me it cant find the command...

This might be a stupid question, but are you logged in as root? I experienced the same problem, even after I "su"ed to super user, it still didn't find the command until I typed /sbin/service

........... and in general - to run any command on the command line it needs to be in your PATH - to check your PATH

echo $PATH

for Red Hat

su -

(su dash)

gives you a typical Root users PATH

Hmmmm... clever... I learn something new everyday, wether it be a question I posted or not.

How would you set the path, or at least add something to the path?

....... for example

PATH=$PATH:/home/john/programs

export PATH

Ok, so while we're on the topic about services, could you shed some light on my issue in the Newbie Forum with regards to managing services? I am still due to get a proper answer, and have been waiting for more than a day.... :o)