Once a Linux system has been deployed and configured, there comes the need to use the environment for its intended purpose. This could be to act as a web server or an application server or even a database server. These use cases often require packages to be installed, and with these packages, there are often services that need to be managed.
In this chapter, we will start by looking at the basic service management of a Linux system and then briefly discuss how service management has changed over the years. The ...
