rc-service - Man Page
locate and run an OpenRC service with the given arguments
Examples (TL;DR)
Show a service's status:
rc-service service_name statusStart a service:
sudo rc-service service_name startStop a service:
sudo rc-service service_name stopRestart a service:
sudo rc-service service_name restartSimulate running a service's custom command:
sudo rc-service --dry-run service_name command_nameActually run a service's custom command:
sudo rc-service service_name command_nameResolve the location of a service definition on disk:
sudo rc-service --resolve service_name
Synopsis
| rc-service | [-c, --ifcrashed] service cmd [...] |
| rc-service | -d, --debug service cmd [...] |
| rc-service | -D, --nodeps service cmd [...] |
| rc-service | [-i, --ifexists] service cmd [...] |
| rc-service | [-I, --ifinactive] service cmd [...] |
| rc-service | [-N, --ifnotstarted] service cmd [...] |
| rc-service | [-s, --ifstarted] service cmd [...] |
| rc-service | [-S, --ifstopped] service cmd [...] |
| rc-service | -e, --exists service |
| rc-service | -Z, --dry-run service cmd [...] |
| rc-service | -l, --list |
| rc-service | -r, --resolve service |
Description
Service scripts could be in different places on different systems. rc-service locates the specified service and runs it with the given arguments. If -i, --ifexists is given then rc-service returns 0 even if the service does not exist. If -I, --ifinactive or -N, --ifnotstarted is given then rc-service returns 0 if the service exists but is in the wrong state.
If given the -l, --list argument then rc-service will list all available services.
-e, --exists return 0 if it can find service, otherwise -1. -r, --resolve does the same and also prints the full path of the service to stdout.
-d, --debug sets -x when running the service script(s).
-D, --nodeps ignores dependencies when running the service.
-Z, --dry-run displays commands rather than executing them.
See Also
Authors
Roy Marples <roy@marples.name>