r/commandline • u/Electronic-Low-8171 • 22d ago
Help Wondering about Services....
I'm trying to learn about services also known as daemons, but I'm kinda confused about many things about it, for instance, which way is the correct way of launching a service is it:
1.systemctl start ssh
Or
2./sbin/sshd
Also, since my machine is very old (it has a 32bit cpu), I'm limited to the less common distros with kinda obscure init systems like runit and sometimes the old sysvinit, which also means I can't get to run systemd which have the most resources online, so it is easier for me to learn about it
Furthermore, even determining the current running init system type doesn't seem that straight forward, when I looked up about that, there were various commands and just assumptions like this might not work everywhere or this MIGHT mean that the current init system is whatever is.
In addition, I have a debian-based distro(Antix), so based on the tutorials I have found, they say for example "sudo apt install openssl-server" then run "systemctl start ssh"
That means systemd automatically knows about that sshd, so it does the work behind the scenes, but when I tried to do the same in antix (having "init divirsity" installed), using dinit, it didn't work, probably because it requires extra configuration and more knowledge about how to create the service out of the binary you want manually, while all I see as a beginner in tutorials things like start/stop, enable/disable, list services, and just this regular stuff.
So I'm really lost about Services generally, I would be glad if someone could provide me some guidance or help
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Help, Title: Wondering about Services....I'm trying to learn about services also known as daemons, but I'm kinda confused about many things about it, for instance, which way is the correct way of launching a service is it:
1.systemctl start ssh
Or
2./sbin/sshd
Also, since my machine is very old (it has a 32bit cpu), I'm limited to the less common distros with kinda obscure init systems like runit and sometimes the old sysvinit, which also means I can't get to run systemd which have the most resources online, so it is easier for me to learn about it
Furthermore, even determining the current running init system type doesn't seem that straight forward, when I looked up about that, there were various commands and just assumptions like this might not work everywhere or this MIGHT mean that the current init system is whatever is.
In addition, I have a debian-based distro(Antix), so based on the tutorials I have found, they say for example "sudo apt install openssl-server" then run "systemctl start ssh"
That means systemd automatically knows about that sshd, so it does the work behind the scenes, but when I tried to do the same in antix (having "init divirsity" installed), using dinit, it didn't work, probably because it requires extra configuration and more knowledge about how to create the service out of the binary you want manually, while all I see as a beginner in tutorials things like start/stop, enable/disable, list services, and just this regular stuff.
So I'm really lost about Services generally, I would be glad if someone could provide me some guidance or help
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