Equivalent linux command of “net start” command in windows

Question

On Windows a command like net start mysql will try to start the MySQL service. I am looking for equivalent Linux command to do that - to change the status of services through Linux commands.

Answer 1

A lot of linux'es support the service command

service mysql.server start

This is related to chkconfig

[root@iceweasel init.d]# chkconfig --list mysql.server

Note: This output shows SysV services only and does not include native
      systemd services. SysV configuration data might be overridden by native
      systemd configuration.

mysql.server    0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

Otherwise you can do it the old fashioned way

cd /etc/init.d
./mysql.server start

Answer 2

Your "service" scripts are all stored in /etc/init.d, so the normal way is to use sudo /etc/init.d/mysqld start (or whatever service you want to start). Modern Linux distributions have the service command which does a similar thing, so also try service mysqld start.

Answer 3

Usually Linux distros have an rc script; for example:

/etc/rc.d/apache2 restart | stop
/etc/rc.d/mysqld start | stop