systemd
gives us the systemctl
commands suite which is mostly used to enable services to start at boot time. We can also start, stop, reload, restart and check status of services with the help of systemctl
.
We can do, for example, sudo systemctl enable service_name
, and service_name
will automatically start at boot time. We can also disable services not to start at boot time.
Is the only difference between the service
and systemctl
commands that systemctl
can be used to enable the start of services at run time? Can we use systemctl
on any service? What other significant differences are there?