Starting and stopping systemd services

Although this recipe uses services by their base name, they can also be addressed by their full filename. For example, sshd can be substituted by sshd.service.

How to do it…

The following steps need to be performed to successfully start or stop systemd services:

1. List all available systemd services, as follows:

   ~]# systemctl list-unit-files --type service
   UNIT FILE                                   STATE   
   atd.service                                 enabled
   auditd.service                              enabled
   auth-rpcgss-module.service                  static  
   autovt@.service                             disabled
   avahi-daemon.service                        disabled
   blk-availability.service                    disabled
   brandbot.service                            static  
   
   ...
   
   systemd-udev-trigger.service                static  
   systemd-udevd.service                       static  
   systemd-update-utmp-runlevel.service        static  
   systemd-update-utmp.service...