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How to start or stop or restart a service in Fedora/RHEL/Ubuntu/Debian Linux

Oct 11th

Posted by Neo in Administration

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The following examples show how to start or stop or restart a service in different flavours of Linux. In all these examples, the service name “httpd” is used. You can replace it with name of the service you want to start or stop or restart.

Starting a service

In RHEL or Fedora:

[root@techpulp ~]# service httpd start

or

[root@techpulp ~]# /etc/init.d/httpd start

In Debian Linux:

[root@techpulp ~]# /etc/init.d/httpd start

In Ubuntu Linux:

[root@techpulp ~]# sudo /etc/init.d/httpd start
Stopping a service

In RHEL or Fedora:

[root@techpulp ~]# service httpd stop

or

[root@techpulp ~]# /etc/init.d/httpd stop

In Debian Linux:

[root@techpulp ~]# /etc/init.d/httpd stop

In Ubuntu Linux:

[root@techpulp ~]# sudo /etc/init.d/httpd stop
Restarting a service

In RHEL or Fedora:

[root@techpulp ~]# service httpd restart

or

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How to get a shell with root access in Ubuntu similar to “su” in RedHat or Fedora Linux

May 8th

Posted by Neo in Ubuntu

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In RedHat or Fedora systems, you will separate passwords and separate user accounts for root and non-root user.

But in Ubuntu, the default user already has root privileges but not allowed to run any command that requires root privileges directly. Instead the user needs to use “sudo” command to invoke any command that requires root privileges. However this is little bit inconvenient if one (especially a RedHat/Fedora user who is used to “su” command) is sick of “sudo” command and wants a full shell access with root privileges.

In Ubuntu, you need to provide self password whenever “sudo” command prompts for password.

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