Systemd: Daily Service Commands

Service control

| Command | Action | | --- | --- | | sudo systemctl start nginx | Start service | | sudo systemctl stop nginx | Stop service | | sudo systemctl restart nginx | Restart service | | sudo systemctl reload nginx | Reload configuration | | systemctl status nginx | Show detailed status |

Boot and enablement

| Command | Action | | --- | --- | | sudo systemctl enable nginx | Enable at boot | | sudo systemctl disable nginx | Disable at boot | | systemctl is-enabled nginx | Check enablement |

Logs

| Command | Action | | --- | --- | | journalctl -u nginx -n 100 | Last 100 lines | | journalctl -u nginx -f | Follow logs live |

Tip

After editing a unit file, run sudo systemctl daemon-reload before restarting the service.