[CentOS] 'service' command not present

Mon Aug 20 21:03:31 UTC 2007
Trey Sizemore <trey at fastmail.fm>

On Mon Aug 20, 2007 04:57PM, Stephen Harris wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 04:54:11PM -0400, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> /sbin/service   (from initscripts)
> 
> Either type the full command line or make sure it's on your PATH
> 
> eg
> sudo /sbin/service httpd start
> 
> 

Thanks to both of you!.  That did the trick.

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Trey
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