Do the two different syntaxes do the same thing?
$ service apache2 restart
$ /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
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As a side note, the whole "service foo restart" thing annoys me because I don't have tab completion.– cjcDec 30, 2011 at 20:25
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Yes. The backward compatible /etc/init.d/ scripts basically run service myservice start/stop/retstart instead of doing anything themselves.
Service is nothing more than a shell script.
cat /sbin/service
At that top you will see it sets the SERVICEDIR to /etc/init.d.
The service script has a few other options such as
--status-all
--full-restart
That loop over all services. But the name you pass to it is matched to the init.d script.
Yes.
To be precise:
service runs a System V init script in as predictable environment as possible,
removing most environment variables and with current working directory set to /.
(from service(8))
answered Dec 30, 2011 at 19:05
In a way, yes. Actually upstart jobs will give a warning if started with /etc/init.d/ while service command always works both for sys v init scripts as well as upstart jobs.
