| SERVICE(8) |
FreeBSD System Manager's Manual |
SERVICE(8) |
NAME
service —
control (start/stop/etc.) or list system services
SYNOPSIS
| service |
[ -v] <rc.d script> start|stop|etc. |
DESCRIPTION
The
service command is an easy interface to the rc.d system. Its primary purpose is to start and stop services provided by the rc.d scripts. When used for this purpose it will set the same restricted environment that is in use at boot time (see below). It can also be used to list the scripts using various criteria.
The options are as follows:
-
-e
-
List services that are enabled. The list of scripts to check is compiled using
rcorder(8) the same way that it is done in
rc(8), then that list of scripts is checked for an “rcvar” assignment. If present the script is checked to see if it is enabled.
-
-R
-
Restart all enabled local services.
-
-l
-
List all files in
/etc/rc.d and the local startup directories. As described in
rc.conf(5) this is usually
/usr/local/etc/rc.d. All files will be listed whether they are an actual rc.d script or not.
-
-r
-
Generate the
rcorder(8) as in
-e above, but list all of the files, not just what is enabled.
-
-v
-
Be slightly more verbose
ENVIRONMENT
When used to run rc.d scripts the
service command sets
HOME to
/ and
PATH to
/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin which is how they are set in
/etc/rc at boot time.
EXIT STATUS
The
service utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
EXAMPLES
The following are examples of typical usage of the
service command:
service named status
service -rv
The following programmable completion entry can be use in bash(1) for the names of the rc.d scripts:
_service () {
local cur
cur=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}
COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W '$( service -l )' -- $cur ) )
return 0
}
complete -F _service service
HISTORY
The
service utility first appeared in
FreeBSD 7.3.
AUTHORS
This manual page was written by
Douglas Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>.