Restarting background services in Debian Ubuntu kindawannadothat Restarting

It appears that this step is increasingly finding it s way into a lot of installation procedures in Debian Ubuntu so I decided to write a small post on it that way whenever I need to include a restart procedure on an installation I ll refer to this post

Sysv rc conf is a curses based interface to let you manage run level symlinks the ones found at etc rc It s a convenient way too to start and stop background applications The run level manager may not be included during your installation of Debian so you may have to pull it from the repos You can do this by

You now should be able to stop a background process by pressing minus sign then start it up by pressing the plus sign

There are a couple of symlinks you will find under etc initd the catch here is that you have to know exactly what the symlink is for the process you d like to manage so I ll just give a couple of examples

Just substitute stop for restart in the above example if you d like to stop the service Obviously substitute start if you d like to start the service