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systemctl not working on a fresh Ubuntu 18.04 build

Posted November 10, 2019 8.7k views
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fresh ubuntu 18.04 build
created new user and switched to that user
installed apache2, php, mysql, essentials using sudo apt-get

Works:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
sudo systemctl status apache2

Does not Work:
sudo systemctl restart apache2
after I hit enter nothing is executed, just another standard line(user@server:~$)

Please advise. Thanks.

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bobbyiliev November 11, 2019

Hello,

It is normal for the systemctl command not to provide you with any output after executing a restart command.

To check if the restart was successful, what you could do is run:

echo $?

This would provide you with the exit code of the previous command. If you get a 0 it means that it was successful, if you get 1 then something is wrong and you need to run the systemctl status command to get some more information.

Hope that this helps!
Regards,
Bobby

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