systemd and journalctl · Managing services
Check a service
Show whether a service is running, with its latest log lines.
systemctl status nginx
Official systemd and journalctl documentation
More managing services commands
- Start a service
- Stop a service
- Restart a service
- Reload a service's configuration
- Start a service now and at boot
- Stop starting a service at boot
All managing services commands · systemd and journalctl cheatsheet