Restarting Services

This chapter explains how to start, stop, and restart daemon services on Parallels H-Sphere servers under Linux and FreeBSD.

Important: Do not stop services with kill, as it may cause information loss!!!

Note: You can also restart services from the Admin CP as described in section System Service Management of Parallels H-Sphere Service Administrator Guide.

Below instructions do not apply to restarting DNS server (named) for Bind 8.x.

To start services, run:

Linux:

# /etc/rc.d/init.d/<SERVICE> start

FreeBSD:

# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/<SERVICE> start

To stop services, run:

Linux:

# /etc/rc.d/init.d/<SERVICE> stop

FreeBSD:

# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/<SERVICE> stop

To restart services, run:

Linux:

# /etc/rc.d/init.d/<SERVICE> restart

FreeBSD:

# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/<SERVICE> restart

An alternative method - and often more appropriate - is to stop and then start the service:

Linux:

# /etc/rc.d/init.d/<SERVICE> stop
# sleep 10
# /etc/rc.d/init.d/<SERVICE> start

FreeBSD:

# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/<SERVICE> stop
# sleep 10
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/<SERVICE> start

Note: While restarting Parallels H-Sphere, run killall -9 java after you stop and before you start CP.

Warning: Do not use kill -9 to stop named, as it may cause information loss!

Following are the commands to put in place of <SERVICE>: