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Control Services and

Daemons
Managing services and daemons
Services and daemons run in the background and are managed by the init system
with systemd

Services
● OS components that manage daemons, allowing control over their current
state (start, stop, or restart)

Daemons
● Background processes that start automatically at boot and run
continuously until stopped or the system shuts down
Init system

● First process that starts when a system boots up


● Handles starting and stopping services during the boot and shutdown
processes

systemd
● Most common init system in modern Linux distributions, designed to
manage services and daemons more efficiently
● Parent process of most of the daemons
To verify systemd is installed in system
● Command: systemctl --version

To check all the available services running in the system


● Command: systemctl list-units --type=service
To list all the services and daemons including the inactive ones
● Command: systemctl --all

Check the status of specific service


● Command: systemctl status <service-name>
To stop a particular service
● Command: systemctl stop <service-name>

To start a particular service


● Command: systemctl start sshd.service
For restarting a particular service
● Command: systemctl restart <service-name>

To reload a particular service


● Command: systemctl reload <service-name>
To enable a particular service
● Command: systemctl enable <service-name>

To verify if a service is enabled or not


● Command: systemctl is-enabled <service-name>
For disabling a particular service
● Command: systemctl disable <service-name>

Masking a particular service


● Command: systemctl mask <service-name>

Note: Masking a service means preventing it from being started, either


manually or automatically, until it is unmasked
To unmask a service
● Command: systemctl unmask <service-name>

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