Comment by frizlab

1 year ago

It’s because service was the other way around, I’m sure.

systemd services are named "foo.service", and you do not need to specify the ".service" in almost any case.

  • They're referring to Debian's service(8) command.

      NAME
           service - run a System V init script
      SYNOPSIS
           service SCRIPT COMMAND [OPTIONS]
    

    (the manpage wasn't updated, but the same command also supports systemd services nowadays)