Services

The service group manages systemd services.

abstrax service <action> <name>

Permissions

start, stop, restart, reload, enable, and disable require root. status does not require root.

Service names

A service name may contain letters, digits, and the characters _ @ : . -, up to 64 characters.

Lifecycle commands

sudo abstrax service start <name>
sudo abstrax service stop <name>
sudo abstrax service restart <name>
sudo abstrax service reload <name>
sudo abstrax service enable <name>
sudo abstrax service disable <name>

• enable configures the service to start at boot.
• disable stops it starting at boot.

Note: stop and restart interrupt the service. Restarting a service that handles live traffic (such as a web server or database) causes a brief outage. Prefer reload where the service supports it.

service status

abstrax service status nginx

  Service:      nginx
  Active:       active
  Sub:          running
  Enabled:      enabled
  PID:          12345
  Description:  A high performance web server