Starting and stopping Linux services

To start a Linux service:

[user@domain]# service servicename start

To stop a Linux service:

[user@domain]# service servicename stop

To restart a Linux service:

[user@domain]# service servicename restart

If the above does not work, please notice that:

service

is a short cut for:

/etc/init.d/

So, you might also issue the following command:

[user@domain]# /etc/init.d/servicename start|stop|restart