[CentOS] starting/stopping services

[me at tdiehl.org]

On Fri, 1 Nov 2013, Wes James wrote:

> I do understand that.
>
> But why can you do
>
> postfix stop/start
>
> but not
>
> sshd stop/start.  With sshd you need to use service sshd stop/start.  It
> seems inconsistent.

The standard way to start and stop services on any Red Hat based Linux system
is with service service-name stop/start/restart/whatever. Postfix is a special
case in that you can do service postfix stop/start OR you can do
postfix stop/start because the postfix author designed it that way. If you do
not like the inconsistency then always use service postfix start/stop/restart,
etc.

Postfix just has an optional way to stop and start it. It is that simple. In
addition, using service postfix whatever has more options then simply start and
stop. You can do any of the following:
{start|stop|restart|reload|abort|flush|check|status|condrestart}. Run the 
command "service postfix" without any additional arguments to see an example.

Regards,

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