Nginx HTTP Server - Fourth Edition

About init scripts

An init script, also known as the service start up script or even SysV script, is a shell script respecting a certain standard. The script will control a daemon application by responding to commands such as start, stop, and others, which are triggered at two levels. Firstly, when the computer starts, if the service is scheduled to be started for the system runlevel, the init daemon will run the script with the start argument. The other possibility for you is to manually execute the script by calling it from the shell:

[[e-mail] ~]# service httpd start

Or if your system does not come with the service command:

[[e-mail] ~]# /etc/init.d/httpd start

The script must accept at least the start, stop, restart, ...