systemctl command not working in RHEL 6

Question

On RHEL 7 or CentOS 7, the systemctl or systemd command works fine. I know it won't work in RHEL 6 or CentOS 6. Can you tell me the alternative command for starting/stopping a service, for example: systemctl start iptables.service?

Rakesh · Answer

RHEL6 and CENTOS 6 were using service command to manage system services. From RHEL7 onwards systemctl is used to manage system services.

Hexdump · Answer

rhel 6 and centos 6 are using upstart, not systemd. SysV (service and chkconfig) is also still supported.

Check documentation of initctl and files in /etc/init/

garethTheRed · Answer

In earlier versions of RHEL use the service command as explained in the documentation here.

# service service_name start

Therefore, in your case:

# service iptables start

You can replace start with restart, stop, status.

List all services with:

# service --status-all

systemctl command not working in RHEL 6

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