Linux Administration Cookbook

CentOS 6 and Upstart

In the old world, systemctl won't work:

$ systemctl-bash: systemctl: command not found

What's also slightly annoying is that there's no upstart command.

Instead, Upstart is skinned to look like a typical init system. The main page even lists it as such:

"init: Upstart process management daemon"

Instead of systemctl, we use service --status-all:

$ service --status-all

This gives you output similar to the following:

smartd is stoppedopenssh-daemon (pid  1526) is running...tuned (pid  1705) is running...

Confusingly, the service name might not be what you see. Take sshd as an example. The previous command might lead you to believe that the daemon on this system is called openssh-daemon, but that's incorrect; it's really ...