service(8)                           System Manager's Manual                           service(8)

NAME
       service - run a System V init script

SYNOPSIS
       service SCRIPT COMMAND [OPTIONS]

       service --status-all

       service --help | -h | --version

DESCRIPTION
       service  runs  a  System  V init script, systemd unit, or upstart job in as predictable an
       environment as possible, removing most environment variables and with the current  working
       directory set to /.

       The  SCRIPT  parameter specifies a System V init script, located in /etc/init.d/SCRIPT, or
       the name of a systemd unit, or the name of an upstart job in /etc/init. The existence of a
       systemd  unit  or  upstart  job of the same name as a script in /etc/init.d will cause the
       unit/job to take precedence over the init.d  script.   The  supported  values  of  COMMAND
       depend  on  the  invoked  script.   service  passes COMMAND and OPTIONS to the init script
       unmodified. For systemd units or upstart jobs, start, stop, status, and reload are  passed
       through  to  their  systemctl/initctl equivalents. For upstart jobs, restart will call the
       upstart 'stop' for the job, followed immediately by the 'start', and will  exit  with  the
       return code of the start command.

       All  scripts  should  support at least the start and stop commands.  As a special case, if
       COMMAND is --full-restart, the script is run twice, first with the stop command, then with
       the start command. This option has no effect on upstart jobs.

       service  --status-all  runs  all init scripts, in alphabetical order, with the status com‐
       mand.  The status is [ + ] for running services, [ - ] for stopped services and [ ? ]  for
       services  without  a  'status'  command.  This option only calls status for sysvinit jobs;
       upstart jobs can be queried in a similar manner with initctl list.

EXIT CODES
       service calls the init script and returns the status returned by it.

FILES
       /etc/init.d
              The directory containing System V init scripts.

       /etc/init
              The directory containing upstart jobs.

       /{lib,run,etc}/systemd/system
              The directories containing systemd units.

ENVIRONMENT
       LANG, LANGUAGE,  LC_CTYPE,  LC_NUMERIC,  LC_TIME,  LC_COLLATE,  LC_MONETARY,  LC_MESSAGES,
       LC_PAPER,  LC_NAME,  LC_ADDRESS,  LC_TELEPHONE, LC_MEASUREMENT, LC_IDENTIFICATION, LC_ALL,
       TERM, PATH
              The only environment variables passed to the init scripts.

SEE ALSO
       /etc/init.d/skeleton,
       update-rc.d(8),
       init(8),
       invoke-rc.d(8).
       systemctl(1).
       initctl(8).

                                             Jan 2006                                  service(8)

sage: service < option > | --status-all | [ service_name [ command | --full-restart ] ]