SERVICE(8)		  BSD System Manager's Manual		    SERVICE(8)

NAME
     service — control (start/stop/etc.) or list system services

SYNOPSIS
     service -e
     service -R
     service [-v] -l | -r
     service [-v] <rc.d script> start|stop|etc.

DESCRIPTION
     The service command is an easy interface to the rc.d system.  Its primary
     purpose is to start and stop services provided by the rc.d scripts.  When
     used for this purpose it will set the same restricted environment that is
     in use at boot time (see below).  It can also be used to list the scripts
     using various criteria.

     The options are as follows:

     -e  List services that are enabled.  The list of scripts to check is com‐
	 piled using rcorder(8) the same way that it is done in rc(8), then
	 that list of scripts is checked for an "rcvar" assignment.  If
	 present the script is checked to see if it is enabled.

     -R  Restart all enabled local services.

     -l  List all files in /etc/rc.d and the local startup directories.  As
	 described in rc.conf(5) this is usually /usr/local/etc/rc.d.  All
	 files will be listed whether they are an actual rc.d script or not.

     -r  Generate the rcorder(8) as in -e above, but list all of the files,
	 not just what is enabled.

     -v  Be slightly more verbose

ENVIRONMENT
     When used to run rc.d scripts the service command sets HOME to / and PATH
     to /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin which is how they are set in /etc/rc at
     boot time.

EXIT STATUS
     The service utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

EXAMPLES
     The following are examples of typical usage of the service command:

	   service named status
	   service -rv

     The following programmable completion entry can be use in bash(1) for the
     names of the rc.d scripts:
	   _service () {
		local cur
		cur=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}
		COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W '$( service -l )' -- $cur ) )
		return 0
	   }
	   complete -F _service service

SEE ALSO
     bash(1) (ports/shells/bash), rc.conf(5), rc(8), rcorder(8)

HISTORY
     The service utility first appeared in FreeBSD 7.3.

AUTHORS
     This manual page was written by Douglas Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>.

BSD			       December 11, 2012			   BSD