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Hi I'm trying to see the status of my apache services on my Mac. I tried the command
sudo service httpd status but command not found
I look up in Google and discover systemctl so I try that
sudo man systemctl and it shows no manual entry for systemctl
I noticed that I didn't see much mac os and only see linux in the websites on Google.
Does the command systemctl and service exists on linux only and not Mac?
If so, what is the mac version of these command?
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In general, both will have the same core commands and features (especially those defined in the Posix standard), but a lot of extensions will be different. For example, linux systems generally have a useradd command to create new users, but OS X doesn't.
Systemctl is a Linux command-line utility used to control and manage systemd and services. You can think of Systemctl as a control interface for Systemd init service, allowing you to communicate with systemd and perform operations. Systemctl is a successor of Init.
systemctl is the systemd command for controlling how services start on a Linux system. A service can be enabled, disabled, or masked, and it can be configured to start at boot, on demand, manually, or prevented from starting under any circumstances. Enabling a service means it will start at boot.
The command line functionality on Mac and Linux are indeed similar as OS X has a flavour of UNIX (called Darwin) underneath the GUI that you see. The default shell on OS X is bash, so if you're familiar with that you will adjust nicely. On a Mac, the default command line application is Terminal.
The equivalent to Linux systemctl on macOS would be launchctl. Apache also has it's own HTTP Server Control Interface, apachectl.
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