Topic: service-management

• Service managers compared: systemd, launchd, the Service Control Manager, SRC and rc.d/OpenRC

  Every general-purpose OS has something that starts, stops, supervises and boots services, but the commands and the persistence model differ. This reference maps start, stop, status, enable-at-boot and log access across systemd, launchd, Windows' Service Control Manager, AIX's SRC, and FreeBSD's rc.d and Alpine's OpenRC.

  article · en · reviewed · knowledge as of 2026-09-24

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