Which Command Will Be Used for Disabling a Service in Linux?
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How to Disable a Services in Linux. In Red Hat based distributions such as Fedora and CentOS, make use of a script called ‘chkconfig’ to enable and disable the running services in Linux. For example, lets disable the Apache web server at the system startup.

How do you stop a service in Linux?

d/ (or /etc/init. d, depending upon which distribution I was using), locate the service, and the issue the command /etc/rc. d/SERVICE start|stop|restart (Where SERVICE is the name of the service to be started, stopped, or restarted).

How enable and disable services in Linux?

The traditional way to start services in Linux was to place a script in /etc/init. d , and then use the update-rc. d command (or in RedHat based distros, chkconfig ) to enable or disable it. This command uses some mildly complicated logic to create symlinks in /etc/rc#.

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