[cruisereg]

Is there a way to start and stop various OS X services from the CLI? There are a couple of configuration changes I'd like to make from roam from home to office to where ever. I'm talking about ssh, internet sharing (including switching what gets shared over what), file sharing, etc.

Any tips or pointers? I've haven't dug into this yet, thought I'd ask here first.

I'm an "old school" *ix guy that likes to have control for exactly these types of situations.

Thanks in advance.

[maceye]

Are you sure you need to stop and start those services for changes to take effect? My best guess for restarting services would be to kill the process and then launch it from the terminal.

Maybe you could make an AppleScript script to modify whatever settings you want to change if there is no simple cli method. I'm assuming you are trying to automate changing these settings... I have not tried this myself, so I don't know if it's possible.

[cruisereg]

Originally Posted by maceye

Are you sure you need to stop and start those services for changes to take effect? My best guess for restarting services would be to kill the process and then launch it from the terminal.

No I'm not sure, but in general this is how things work on other unices. I'm assuming thats the case with OS X as well.

Maybe you could make an AppleScript script to modify whatever settings you want to change if there is no simple cli method. I'm assuming you are trying to automate changing these settings... I have not tried this myself, so I don't know if it's possible.

This is an option, but the CLI method doesn't have to be simple - I grok multiple scripting languages. I'll have to do a bit of research.

[IEEE1394]

The web server can be restarted in the usual manner - "apachectl restart".

Try reading up on launchd, the Mac OS X daemon launcher and manager.

[P]

General UNIX daemons reload changes if you send HUP to them, ie "sudo kill -1 pid" or "sudo killall -1 process_name". HUP will kill any normal process (that's what they get sent when you log out or close the parent terminal window), but a daemon will just restart.

For an intro to launchd and launchctl, try this

Getting Started with launchd

[cruisereg]

Originally Posted by P

General UNIX daemons reload changes if you send HUP to them, ie "sudo kill -1 pid" or "sudo killall -1 process_name". HUP will kill any normal process (that's what they get sent when you log out or close the parent terminal window), but a daemon will just restart.

For an intro to launchd and launchctl, try this

Getting Started with launchd

Very cool - I think this is what I was looking for. Thanks for the pointer. Its actually scary remembering signals after being away from real Unix admin jobs for nearly ten years.

Thanks again and I look forward to hopefully helping other people here.