Fedora

Here is list of all functions which should services backend provide

Basic

what	where
Get and set which service should run on which runlevel	/sbin/chkconfig
Run and stop services	/sbin/service
Show status of the services	/sbin/service * status
Show description of the services	/etc/init.d/* (#Description)

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