Hello guys
I would like to know the difference between the following commands:
$ sudo service service_name start|restart|stop|reload*
and
$ sudo /etc/init.d/service_name start|restart|stop|reload*
For example,
$ sudo service apache2 restart*
and
$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart*
If there are other commands that can work in the same way, you can let me know.
There is no such difference between those commands, all of them do the same job using the same files in here /etc/init.d/*
AFAIK there are no more commands to do the same job except if you are using cPanel/WHM, in that case you can use something like this:
/scripts/restartsrv_httpd, /scripts/restartsrv_cpanel, and so on....
No worries, you are most welcome 
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