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What’s the recommended way to enable / disable services?

Are there any other command to start stop restart service in ubuntu other than the below following.

  1. service --status-all
  2. service <service name> stop
  3. sudosysv-rc-conf
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which service do you wish to start/stop/restart? there is at least a way to do it in several services but I think you should be more specific on your needs. I don't think there is a way to start/stop/restart all the services at the same time. – Geppettvs D'Constanzo Aug 23 '11 at 19:21
for example if i wanted to stop nginx,I would do something like this $service nginx stop; I wanted to know if there are any other alternative ways to stop and start a service. Any GUI based application that displays or shows us the unused services etc. – user7044 Aug 23 '11 at 19:33
I edited my answer to include a GUI client called BUM. If you're interested in GUIs, you should edit your answer to take out "command." Generally when people are looking for a "command" they aren't interested in a GUI. – Kris Harper Aug 23 '11 at 20:53
You may find interesting the answers in this question askubuntu.com/questions/19320/…. – Geppettvs D'Constanzo Aug 23 '11 at 21:02

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It depends largely on the service. The new and preferred way to stop start and restart services is through /etc/init.d. So, for example, to stop or start the Apache Webserver, you can run

/etc/init.d/apache2 stop

/etc/init.d/apache2 start

The same is true of many other services, but probably not all. You can use the utility sysv-rc-conf to see which services you have that use an init.d script and manage them that way as well. Run it with sudo sysv-rc-conf.

If you're looking for a GUI application, try Boot up Manager. Install with

apt-get install bum

and run from the UI or from a terminal with

sudo bum

Usage and documentation can be found here.

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Thanks all for giving me good options/alternatives. – user7044 Aug 24 '11 at 3:54
Small mistake: should be /etc/init.d/apache2 stop and /etc/init.d/apache2 start instead of /etc/init.d/stop apache2 and /etc/init.d/start apache2. – Rafał Cieślak Aug 24 '11 at 12:57
Whoops, edited. Thanks. – Kris Harper Aug 24 '11 at 13:03
Boot-up Manager (bum) is very nice to have an easy report of services on our system. – Pisu Nov 15 '11 at 21:56
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You can use the following commands:

service <servicename> stop

service <servicename> start

service <servicename> restart

Note service --status-all doesn't stop or start anything, it just returns a status (and there's some known bugs in it).

If you have upstart then you can use these:

stop <servicename>

start <servicename>

restart <servicename>
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