service command does not work in centos 7

Question

I used to use service command for restarting, reloading, and checking status of service on centos 6.5 like below:

$ sudo service nginx restart OK
$ sudo service nginx status OK

But, in CentOS 7 I get this notice for doing the same thing.

[root@admin ~]# service nginx restart
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl restart  nginx.service
[root@admin ~]# 

Question: How do I start nginx service in Centos7.5?

Solution

service command doesn't work in CentOS 7 any more. Redhat based OS migrated to Systemd from SysVinit system.

You have to use systemctl start nginx.service

For sysVinit to systemd cheatsheet visit following link: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SysVinit_to_Systemd_Cheatsheet

Comments

[robue-a7119895]

Weird. It does work with just systemctl start nginx but it never shows the status, or OK message.