On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Wes James <comptekki at gmail.com> wrote: > In an earlier thread it was mentioned I could use postfix stop to stop > postfix. I'm trying to get sshd started and starting on boot. I did > chkconfig sshd on and that worked fine, but then tried sshd start, but that > didn't work. It looks like I need to do service sshd start (I did just > that and it is now started). Why the difference? 'chkconfig' uses comments in the script in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ as hints to make the symlinks in the runlevel directories (/etc/rc.d/rc1.d, etc.) for you and some other convenience operations. The runlevel directories control what happens at startup and shutdown - based on your default runlevel set in /etc/inittab. 'service' executes the script immediately with the argument you provide. If you look at the contents of the script you can see what it does with each argument (stop/start/restart are always handled, other arguments may be). -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com