Starting and stopping systemd services

Although this recipe uses services by their base name, they can also be addressed by their full filename. For example, sshd can be substituted by sshd.service.

How to do it…

The following steps need to be performed to successfully start or stop systemd services:

  1. List all available systemd services, as follows:
    ~]# systemctl list-unit-files --type service
UNIT FILE                                   STATE   
atd.service                                 enabled
auditd.service                              enabled
auth-rpcgss-module.service                  static  
autovt@.service                             disabled
avahi-daemon.service                        disabled
blk-availability.service                    disabled
brandbot.service                            static  

...

systemd-udev-trigger.service                static  
systemd-udevd.service                       static  
systemd-update-utmp-runlevel.service        static  
systemd-update-utmp.service static ...

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