Introduction

This package allows controlling Linux services.

There are three common init systems in use by Linux distributions, each offering its own way to manage system services.

• "System V" (pronounced "system five") is the older init system. Its service configuration files ("init scripts") are in /etc/init.d and services are controlled with the service command.
• Upstart is a newer init system. Its service configuration files are in /etc/init and services are controlled by commands such as start <service>, stop <service>, etc. Normally, distributions that use Upstart as the init system also support managing services using the System V service configuration and commands.
• systemd offers an even newer init system. Its service configuration files are in several locations such as /usr/lib/systemd/system and services are controlled by the systemctl command.

This package supports controlling services with either System V commands or systemd commands.

Supported operating systems:

• Ubuntu
• RedHat based distributions such as RHEL, CentOS, and Oracle Linux
• SUSE based distributions such as SLES or SLED

Usage

Depending on the operating system distribution and version, instantiate the correct class:

• Ubuntu version<15.04 - UbuntuInitService
• SUSE version<12 - SuseInitService
• RedHat version<7 - RedHatInitService
• Ubuntu version>=15.04 - SystemdService
• SUSE version>=12 - SystemdService
• RedHat version>=7 - SystemdService

Pass the service name and the name of the process the service is expected to use, for example:

sysv_service = UbuntuInitService('multipath-tools', 'multipathd')

The classes provide the following methods:

• is_running
• start
• force_start
• stop
• is_auto_start
• set_auto_start

Checking out the code

To run this code from the repository for development purposes, run the following:

easy_install -U infi.projector
projector devenv build

Python 3 support is experimental and not fully tested.