service
—
control (start/stop/etc.) or list system services
service |
[-j jail]
[-v ] -l |
service |
[-j jail]
[-v ] -r |
service |
[-j jail]
[-v ] script
command |
The service
command is an easy interface to the rc.d
system. Its primary purpose is to start and stop services provided by the rc.d
scripts. When used for this purpose it will set the same restricted
environment that is in use at boot time (see
ENVIRONMENT). It can also be used to
list the scripts using various criteria.
The options are as follows:
-e
- List services that are enabled. The list of scripts to check is compiled
using
rcorder(8)
the same way that it is done in
rc(8),
then that list of scripts is checked for an “rcvar”
assignment. If present the script is checked to see if it is enabled.
-j
jail
- Perform the given actions under the named jail. The
jail argument can be either a jail ID or a jail
name.
-l
- List all files in /etc/rc.d and the local startup
directories. As described in
rc.conf(5)
this is usually /usr/local/etc/rc.d. All files
will be listed whether they are an actual rc.d script or not.
-R
- Restart all enabled local services.
-r
- Generate the
rcorder(8)
as in
-e
above, but list all of the files, not
just what is enabled.
-v
- Be slightly more verbose.
When used to run rc.d scripts the service
command sets
HOME
to / and
PATH
to
/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin which is how they are
set in /etc/rc at boot time.
The service
utility exits 0 on success,
and >0 if an error occurs.
The following are examples of typical usage of the
service
command:
service named status
service -j dns named status
service -rv
The following programmable completion entry can be used in
csh(1) for
the names and common commands of the rc.d scripts:
complete service 'c/-/(e l r v)/' 'p/1/`service -l`/' \
'n/*/(start stop reload restart \
status rcvar onestart onestop)/'
The following programmable completion entry can be used in
bash(1)
for the names of the rc.d scripts:
_service () {
local cur
cur=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}
COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W '$( service -l )' -- $cur ) )
return 0
}
complete -F _service service
The service
utility first appeared in
FreeBSD 7.3.