From the course: Learning Fedora Linux
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Managing services
- [Instructor] Fedora uses systemd to manage services. As with most of the things we've seen in this course, systemd in not unique to fedora. But it's an important part of managing the system. So, we will take a brief look at using it to control services. Systemd operates as an init system and a service manager. In order to control services we can use the systemctl command. Combined with various options to start, stop, restart, and check the status of services on the system. Services are the programs or tools that run in the background, waiting for input. Things like the system logger, the web server, the audio service, and many others. In systemd, services are units which can be independent or they can be part of targets. Which are groups of services that represent various operational states of the system. Here, we will take a look at working I can take a look at the status of a unit I can see that it's loaded. I can also see that its active and running. Which corresponds to the…
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