On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Kumar Appaiah <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 08:26:17PM -0700, Mahadevan R wrote: >> >From: Dhana Sekar <[email protected]> >> >> >Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 10:27 PM >> >Subject: [Ilugc] 1D1C - service >> > >> >command: service >> >syntax: >> > # service SCRIPT COMMAND [OPTIONS] >> >> ---- >> >> Is this not a redhat distro family specific command? It also >> requires the relevant package to be installed via the package >> manager and not source, for it to work, IIRC. > > It appears that since 2009, Debian and Ubuntu have had the service > command. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=534300
However, one needs to install it. Ditto for chkconfig (origins from Redhat) the equivalent of update-rc.d in Debian/Ubuntu. openSUSE also provides service and chkconfig since version 10 or 11. -- Arun Khan Sent from my non-iphone/non-android device (অরুণ খান্/अरुण खान) _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
