Equivalent of "service" command in Debian?
 

I just installed Debian on an old machine I have sitting around. Things are going great, but I cant seem to figure out the Debian equivalent of the service command (as in "service httpd status"). I use service on my Red Hat and Mandrake boxen with no problems, but it just isnt there. What is the equivalent command?

Argh, anyone?

Some of the init scripts will accept status as a parameter.

i.e.: /etc/init.d/httpd status

Also, you can start/stop: /etc/init.d/httpd start

This will also work on RedHat.

Run the script without a parameter to see what it supports. I don't know of a direct equivalent to /sbin/service on a RedHat box.

OK, thanks... That works for most things. Im so used to Red Hat that when I installed Debian and tried tooling around, I was lost as to how to get services running.

The "service" command on RedHat is a simple shell script. It's only 1819 bytes.
I don't have Debian installed, but I bet that you could just simply copy the script and use it there. (Since it's just calling /etc/init.d/servicename with the specified parameters...)