[Gllug] Wide eyed and innosent new members 21/10/02

Chris Bell chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk
Thu Oct 24 08:34:09 UTC 2002


On Mon 06 Feb, John Hearns wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> John Hearns wrote:
> 
> > Kristian Davies wrote:
> >
> > > Spooky t'was just the other day I was looking for a solution to this...and I
> > > found...
> > >
> > > >> http://www.beowulf.org/listarchives/linux-tulip-bug/1999/10/0036.html
> > >
> > > >>Also instead of reboot, this should work "service network restart"
> > >
> > > Not sure if this is of any use since im a complete n00b...
> > >
> >
> > Hey, we all had to start somewhere.
> >
> > The 'service' command controls the system services - for instance if you are
> > running a webserver,
> > this is one of the services.
> > To a Linux system, networking is just another service.
> > The service comand accepts a few arguments, which just about explain themselves
> > -
> > start,   stop,   restart,   status
> >
> > So 'service network restart' is telling the system to shut down your network
> > connections, then
> > start them again.
> >
> 
> Oh, and newbie tip.
> If you intend to use a 'stop' immediately followed by a 'start' of a service, it
> is better to do it using this construct:
> 
> service network stop ;   service network start
> 
> 
> The ; means execute the next comand on the line.
> 
   I have just tried it on a Debian 3.0 system, I probably missed something,
but it reported

bash: service: command not found


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Chris Bell


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