Raspberry Pi How To: Manage Services

A selection of commands to manage services from Raspian/Debian Jessie onwards:

Print active services:

sudo systemctl list-units -t service

Print all services:

sudo systemctl list-units -t service --all

Print status of a single service:

sudo systemctl status cron

Start/Stop/Restart/Reload service:

sudo systemctl start ssh

sudo systemctl stop ssh

sudo systemctl restart ssh

sudo systemctl reload ssh

Enable/Disable service:

sudo systemctl enable ssh

sudo systemctl disable ssh

Help is available via man systemctl

Note: Pre Jessie (e.g. Wheezy) was using "service myservice start", "service myservice stop", "update-rc.d myservice defaults", etc.

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