August 2022
Beginner
992 pages
24h 14m
English
Content preview from CompTIA Linux+ Study Guide, 5th Edition
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Chapter 6Maintaining System Startup and Services
After your Linux system has traversed the boot process, it enters final system initialization, where it needs to start various services. A service, or daemon, is a program that performs a particular duty. Several services were covered in Chapter 2, “Introduction to Services.”
The initialization daemon (init) determines which services are started and in what order. This daemon also allows you to stop and manage the various system services.
The SysV init (SysV) was based on the Unix System V initialization ...