By rayjamessaas
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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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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