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Manage services with systemd

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Manage services with systemd

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- [Instructor] Services are the meat and potatoes of servers. It is why they exist. Services come in software packages, some of which are installed and enabled by default. With SUSE Lennox Enterprise Server 12, systemd replaces system5 init-scripts. I will now show you how to control these services as well as how to enable and disable them in SUSE Lennox Enterprise Server. First way is with YaST. In YaST, under system, you'll find services manager and it's very easy to use. You simply highlight the service that you're interested in and you have some toggle buttons at the bottom to enable and disable the service, which determines whether it starts when you boot up and you can immediately start or stop the server with the other toggle button. One other thing I'll mention is that systemd uses targets. You can choose a target in the upper left-hand corner. There's several options, but the two most common ones are starting up the graphical interface or starting up multi-user system. The…

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