[CentOS] 'service' command not present

[Steve Searle]

Around 09:56pm on Monday, August 20, 2007 (UK time), pctech at mybellybutton.com scrawled:

> I just did an install of CentOS 5 on one of my machines.  However, when
> I try to use the 'service' command (such as 'service httpd start') I get
> an error that the service command is not found.
> 
> Why would that be?  Where does this command come from?  I can launch
> the services just fine using the respective /etc/init.d/ entries.

How did you change to root?  If you used "su", rather than "su -", you
will not have root's path ingormation and will need to type the full
path: "/sbin/service...".  It would be better to do "su -", which gives
you a full rott environment.

Steve

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