Be quick on Ubuntu

I’m always used to service command for starting, stopping and restarting services on my Linux boxes. Bit lazy to type in /etc/ini.d/. When I use my laptop to work with services like apache, ftp etc I had to type the complete command earlier as I had not found an alternative or didn’t take trouble to find one.

All you have got to do is install any of these packages on your Ubuntu installation.

* debian-helper-scripts
* sysvconfig

And there you go!

Now you can use

service restart

PS: just replace with the daemon which needs to be restarted.

Its simple isn’t it?

Always there is an alternative way to do things, you just got to dig in a bit.