Newb question: “service” command unavailable on CentOS 5.5

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service iptables restart

...but I get a command not found error. I tried yum install service but there's no such package.

How do I restart services?

MadHatter · Answer 1 · 2010-12-02 17:19:07Z

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How about /sbin/service iptables restart ?

answered Dec 2 '10 at 17:19

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sudo in front of that worked. Thanks! – Kev Dec 2 '10 at 17:51

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams · Answer 2 · 2010-12-02 17:19:56Z

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answered Dec 2 '10 at 17:19

	Good point. I'd sort of assumed he had become root with "/bin/su" not "/bin/su -", so lacked the PATH. If that's true, my answer is probably more immediately helpful, but yours is way better in the long run. – MadHatter Dec 2 '10 at 17:26
	I had tried `sudo service iptables restart` and gotten the same message. Sorry, I forgot to mention that. – Kev Dec 2 '10 at 17:49
	@Kev: Did you read the article? – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Dec 2 '10 at 17:50
	Ah, I see it does answer the question, in "The reason is that regular system users and the root user have different PATH environment variables (you can view a users PATH with 'echo $PATH')." However, the other answer got it working for me much quicker. :) (I still gave +1 to you...) – Kev Dec 2 '10 at 17:52

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