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On systems that use the System-V style init scripts, such as RHEL/CentOS 6: service <service> start service <service> stop On systems using systemd, such as Ubuntu (Server and Desktop) >= 15.04, and RHEL/CentOS >= 7: systemctl <service> dnsmasq systemctl <service> ...

On systems that use the System-V style init scripts, such as RHEL/CentOS 6: service <service> status On systems using systemd, such as Ubuntu (Server and Desktop) >= 15.04, and RHEL/CentOS >= 7.0: systemctl status <service>

On systems using systemd, such as Fedora => 15, Ubuntu (Server and Desktop) >= 15.04, and RHEL/CentOS >= 7: systemctl status [servicename] ...where [servicename] is the service in question; for example, systemctl status sshd. This will show basic status information and any recent errors ...