[Cialug] debian sarge

James Shoemaker james at dhlake.com
Fri Jun 3 11:48:12 CDT 2005


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> The service command is just a script, it could easily be used on a 
> Debian system.
> 
> Really all it does is saves you a small amount of typing.
> 
> service httpd restart
> 
> ... is similar to typing:
> 
> /etc/init.d/httpd restart
> 
> ... I did the latter for a long time before I discovered the service 
> script (or before the service script existed).
> 

Not even that many fewer characters,
/e<TAB>i<TAB>htt<TAB> restart
And much better when you don't remember exactly what they decided to
call the script.

James
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