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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 http://askubuntu.com/questions/19320/whats-the-recommend-way-to-enable-disable-services. – Geppettvs D'Constanzo Aug 23 '11 at 21:02
  • The duplicate is wrong: this is not about enabling/disabling, but starting/stopping. Also, this question has an accepted answer. – Andrea Corbellini Sep 11 '13 at 14:18
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    @AndreaCorbellini Answers [there](http://askubuntu.com/questions/19320/recommended-way-to-enable-disable-services), including [its accepted answer](http://askubuntu.com/a/19324/22949), also include information about how to start and stop services. Furthermore, the topics are naturally very closely related--anyone who wants to enable and disable services will probably want to know how to start and stop them as well, and *most* people who want to know how to start and stop them will likely also want to know how to enable and disable them. So I'm not sure. – Eliah Kagan Sep 11 '13 at 15:42
  • @EliahKagan: oops, you are right. :) – Andrea Corbellini Sep 11 '13 at 16:26

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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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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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  • Boot-up Manager (bum) is very nice to have an easy report of services on our system. – Stefano Nov 15 '11 at 21:56
  • Why is the preferred method to use the binary in init.d/ and not the service manager `service` as part of the [sysvinit-utils](https://packages.debian.org/sid/sysvinit-utils) package? – ThorSummoner May 12 '15 at 20:24
  • @ThorSummoner it used to be but these days I think upstart is the prefered way. – vidstige Oct 21 '15 at 11:54
  • Update: from Ubuntu 15.104 "Vivid" Canonical dropped `upstart` and switched to another init system, called `systemd`, adopted also by Debian and other major distros such as Arch, Fedora, RedHat and SuSe. So, unlike to `upstart`, seems reasonable to consider that `systemd` it's here to stay, for quite a long time. – gerlos Mar 14 '18 at 10:33