Troubleshooting background services
Often, a big part of every system administrator's work is troubleshooting the server when something goes wrong. This is especially true for your system's services, as they are constantly running and processing information all the time. Services can be dependent on other services and on the server's system, and there will be situations in your administrator's life where the system services will fail or refuse to start. Here, in this recipe, we will show you how to troubleshoot them if something goes wrong.
Getting ready
To complete this recipe, you will require a working installation of the CentOS 7 operating system with root privileges and a console-based text editor of your choice; you should also have completed the Knowing and managing your background services recipe from this chapter, where we installed the Apache web server.
How to do it...
In order to show you how to troubleshoot services, we will introduce a random error in the Apache service's configuration...
