[Sussex] FTP - Fedora core 3

[Jon Fautley]

Adam J Purcell wrote:

> Jon, thanks for the tip on 'service vsftpd start'.  I think I was
> vaguely aware of that but I've never really used service, always going
> direct to the scripts.  What's the benefit of this wrapper?

No worries, it's my job, afterall ;)

The 'service' command is basically just a wrapper, as you say. It's 
standard across a number of SysV init distros, so means you don't have 
to guess at the location of initscripts, etc. It's closely tied in with 
chkconfig, which makes enabling/disabling services REALLY easy on SysV 
systems.

I find it easier because it's quicker to type than 
/etc/init.d/servicename :)

Jon
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