Starting, stopping, and reloading services

We've already seen that when you install a service on a RHEL-type distro, such as Alma Linux, the service is normally disabled and not active by default. So now, I'll give you three guesses about what the command is to start a service.

Give up? Okay, here's how we start Apache:

[donnie@localhost ~]$ sudo systemctl start httpd
[sudo] password for donnie: 
[donnie@localhost ~]$

Well, that's easy enough. Let's take a look at the status. Here's the first part of the command output:

[donnie@localhost ~]$ sudo systemctl status httpd
 httpd.service - The Apache HTTP Server
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Tue 2021-03-30 18:35:05 EDT; 1min 8s ago
     Docs: man:httpd.service(8)
 Main PID: 8654 (httpd)
   Status: "Running, listening on: port...