SL Linux : Best Linux resources for all: June 2010

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Control Linux Services in command line

Linux OS also runs several services like windows. Some times most of them are not useful or sometimes some of them are reduce PC performance. So how to manage those service in Linux. Here i show the basic way to control those service through the command line in fedora.

The syntax is - service [service name] [option]

The available options are

--start - Start the stopped services

--stop - Stop currently running services

--restart - Restart a service

--status - Check status of a service

Here are some example to show how it works

I want to check and stop the service of Network Manager. So first i want to check the status of the Network Manager. Issue following command as a root.

[root@fedora fedora 11]# service NetworkManager status

NetworkManager(pid 5054) is running ...

[root@fedora fedora 11]#

Ok now the service is running. So now i am going to stop the service.

[root@fedora fedora 11]# service NetworkManager start

Starting NetworkManager daemon: [OK]

[root@fedora fedora 11]#

To check all services issue services --status-all

To get help services --help

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

OpenSUSE 11.2 Released

OpenSUSE is an open source OS and free to use with your PC, laptops and as a servers. The OpenSUSE newest version 11.2 has been released and you can download it from http://software.opensuse.org. It includes GNOME, KDE and many user friendly applications. Here are some screen shots provide by the OpenSUSE web site for its new release.