Service Management
Service management includes both starting up services and ensuring those services all start up correctly. There is also a component of manually starting up and stopping each of these services. While there is a lot of commonality between different Linux distributions, including some of the concepts going back to AT&T Unix, there is some diversity too.
This section covers three different system startup processes. Although two of them share features in common, the third is completely different. In addition, many utilities surround the services, including utilities used to place the service scripts correctly so they start up automatically.
SysV Init
After services are installed, they must be managed. Installing a service doesn’t ...
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