What's the difference between "Service" and "/etc/init.d/"?

Posted by Marco Ceppi on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Marco Ceppi
Published on 2010-08-12T19:12:51Z Indexed on 2012/07/07 21:23 UTC
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I've been managing server installations both on and off Ubuntu flavor for some time - I've become quite adjusted to /etc/init.d/ for restarting servcies. Now I get this message:

root@tatooine:~# /etc/init.d/mysql status
Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8)
utility, e.g. service mysql status

Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an
Upstart job, you may also use the status(8) utility, e.g. status mysql
mysql start/running, process 14048

This seems to have been brought about in the latest LTS of Ubuntu - why? What's so bad about /etc/init.d/ and what/is there a difference between service and /etc/init.d/?

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