These Things Matter to Me: Service in Novell SUSE/ SLES/ NLD

Monday, September 26, 2005

Service in Novell SUSE/ SLES/ NLD

I keep bumping up against small differences between Linux distros, and it kind of drives me a crazy. For example, I'm spoiled by service in the Redhat distros. You can query the status of any service in /etc/init.d.

# service syslog status
syslogd (pid 2106) is running...
klogd (pid 2110) is running...
# service httpd status
httpd (pid 26830 26829 26828 26827 26826) is running...
#

You can't do that in the Novell distros of Linux (NLD, SLES, SUSE Pro) that I've seen...
Until now! I came across this handy script on Novell's site, that'll let you to enjoy the service experience.

#!/bin/bash
#/usr/sbin/service

if [ $USER != "root" ]
then
echo "Must be in a root login shell to run $0"
exit
fi

if [ $# -lt 2 ]
then
echo "Usage: $0  service_name  stop/start/restart/status"
exit
fi

set -e
/etc/init.d/$1 $2

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