The service command has a syntax like this:
service servicename action
where as systemctl has a syntax like this:
systemctl action servicename.service
This is inconvienient for the common case where more than one action is
performed in sequence on the same service, since with the first ordering,
one just hits the up arrow, ctrl-w, and then types the new action (with
tab-completion).
With the systemctl order, one must first skip back over the first word,
which due to the awesome emacsness of bash keybindings is more of a pain.
I'm not saying that systemctl's syntax needs to be changed. I am saying,
however, that it's important to get the service command working with
systemctl so that people can use that instead.
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Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences