Hi Shrinivasan,

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Shrinivasan T <[email protected]>wrote:

> Friends.
>
> As I know, all the services in the linux are in /etc/init.d
>
> To start any service, we can do
> /etc/init.d/<servie name> start
>
> But, in recent days, it seems like ubuntu is changing this.
>
> see the results here.
>
>
> starting apache:
>
> shriniva...@shrinivasan-laptop:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start
> [sudo] password for shrinivasan:
>  * Starting web server apache2
>  httpd (pid 3529) already running
>
>
> starting mysql :
>
> shriniva...@shrinivasan-laptop:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start
> Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8)
> utility, e.g. service mysql start
>
> Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an
> Upstart job, you may also use the start(8) utility, e.g. start mysql
> shriniva...@shrinivasan-laptop:~$ sudo start mysql
> start: Job is already running: mysql
>
>
> Why is there a different in starting apahe and mysql in the same machine?
>

Ubuntu guys are giving that for backward compatibility and for some of the
services, if you start with /etc/init.d/<service name> start, you will get a
warning, start it with service. I don't remember the service name, right
now.

Thanks
Nagappan

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