Systemd is an init system and also a system manager, and it has become the new standard for Linux systems. To control this init system, we have a central management tool, called systemctl. Using systemctl, we can check services status, manage the services, change their states, and work with their configuration files.
Most of the Linux distributions have implemented systemctl, so it comes preinstalled.
If any particular Linux distribution does not have it preinstalled, this implies that the particular Linux distribution is not using the init system.
In this section, we will discuss how to use the systemctl command to perform various actions on the services:
- To confirm if our Linux distribution supports systemctl, we can just run the command
systemctl
, as shown here:
If we get output as shown here, it confirms that the command is working. If we receive an error, bash: systemctl is not installed
, it implies the system does not support...