[Tyre MacAdmin]

Is there a way to start stop services from the commmand line in a format similar to Red Hat?

For instance:

service network stop

(stops the network)

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally Posted by Tyler McAdams

Is there a way to start stop services from the commmand line in a format similar to Red Hat?

For instance:

service network stop

(stops the network)

Funny you mention it, because there is a "service" command on Mac OS X. It's a pretty simple command with hardly any documentation, but it works similarly to what you described (though I've never used Red Hat extensively). Check out the services it can control with sudo service --list.

The syntax is intuitive for stopping and starting and the man page details one or two other possible switches, for example:

Code:
[root@thefro: ~]# service --test-if-configured-on telnet           
[root@thefro: ~]# echo  $?
1

Eh, check it out.

[Tyre MacAdmin]

Thanks! Will do. Other than that, is there a "standard" way that OS X Server admin are taught to start/stop things like nfs, smb... etc from the shell?

[Detrius]

Originally Posted by Tyler McAdams

Thanks! Will do. Other than that, is there a "standard" way that OS X Server admin are taught to start/stop things like nfs, smb... etc from the shell?

sudo serveradmin start smb

see:
man serveradmin

Doesn't work on client, though.

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally Posted by Detrius

sudo serveradmin start smb

see:
man serveradmin

Doesn't work on client, though.

Plus, the serveradmin command was pretty unintuitive the few times I tried to use it to control the firewall or afp. It seems like every time I try to use it the syntax varies so much from command to command (ipfilter, web, etc)... I wish managing services in Mac OS X server was more like in a Linux system with /etc/init.d scripts for starting, stopping, and restarting services.

Hell, a little shell script with some functions would be better. I didn't ever realize it, but that's all the StartupItems in Mac OS X were... Take this one I wrote for the syslog-ng daemon on one of my Mac OS X servers (Panther):

Code:
[root@server: /Library/StartupItems/syslog-ng]# cat syslog-ng 
#!/bin/sh 

## 
# syslog-ng logging daemon 
## 

. /etc/rc.common 

StartService () 
{ 
        ConsoleMessage "Starting syslog-ng" 
        /usr/local/sbin/syslog-ng -f /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf -p /var/run/syslog-ng.pid 
} 

StopService () 
{ 
        ConsoleMessage "Stopping syslog-ng" 
        kill `cat /var/run/syslog-ng.pid` 

} 

RestartService () 
{ 
        ConsoleMessage "Restarting syslog-ng" 
                StopService 
                StartService 
} 

RunService "$1"

I just wish the serveradmin command was a little easier to use/understand.

[Detrius]

Originally Posted by [APi]TheMan

...I just wish the serveradmin command was a little easier to use/understand.

I never used the command line version. If I needed to control a server from another machine, I installed the Server Admin Tools on that other machine. As I recall, it's a free download from Apple.

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally Posted by Detrius

I never used the command line version. If I needed to control a server from another machine, I installed the Server Admin Tools on that other machine. As I recall, it's a free download from Apple.

Haha, totally true. I just get such a kick out of the command line. Plus, Apple's GUI tools can only do so much. I've noticed they're limited when it comes to configuring Apache and the Firewall, for instance.