Our project manager set up a droplet. When I set up a service according to https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-deploy-node-js-applications-using-systemd-and-nginx and try to run it with sudo systemctl start my-service there is no systemctl command anywhere (also not in /sbin or /usr/sbin). Is that tutorial up-to-date? Is there a different way to create a service?
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That tutorial targets Linux distributions that use the
systemdinit system. That is also what provides thesystemctlcommand. What Linux distribution are you working with? Ubuntu will be moving tosystemdin a future release, but currently does not use it. Fedora, CentOS 7, and CoreOS on the other hand all should come with that command available by default.If you are using Ubuntu, you can accomplish something similar using Upstart. For instance, the
systemdservice file from that tutorial can be written as an Upstart script like so:For all the details on how to use Upstart, check out:
Hello there,
If you want to stop/start the services then use the service command.
service <service-name> status/start/stop