Ubuntu General

Ubuntu General Notes

Starting/Stoping Services

invoke-rc.d

Usage

invoke-rc.d service-name start|stop|restart

This is the equivalent to "service" in RedHat based Distros

Starting Services at Boot

update-rc.d

Usage

update-rc.d service-name start|stop|restart

This is the equivalent to "chkconfig" in RedHat based Distros

Optionally you can run rcconf a menu based Command Line utility

rcconfig

This package may not be installed by default

apt-get install rcconf