Solved Systemctl - sysctl - systemd

[banderas20]

Hi!

I have seen many ways to manage services in Ubuntu. Such as Systemctl - sysctl - systemd - /etc/init.d scripts and so on.

Some of them seem to work always, whereas some not.

¿What is the difference among them all?

Thanks!

 

[kc1di]

Well on Ubuntu or almost any systemd system - services can be managed with systemctl commands.
for a good tutorial on those command look here.

Correct Way of Using Ubuntu systemctl to Control Systemd

Need a better way to control services in your Ubuntu machine? Learn how to effectively manage services using Ubuntu systemctl commands in this tutorial!

adamtheautomator.com

Init is the old way of managing or starting services on most linux systems. It will work on both systemd and non-systemd systems but take much more work. They are used mostly on servers and clound/VM machines today.

Managing Linux daemons with init scripts - Linux.com

When you install a new Linux server distribution, you can often install all of the daemons you’ll need to run on that machine at install time. Distribution vendors present a “ready to go” distribution by supplying initialization scripts for all of the services you might run. But what happens if...

www.linux.com

That is a very quick overview of them.

 

[banderas20]

Thanks for the links. I'll read them carefully.

Best regards!