What's the difference between /etc/init.d and /sbin/service

[Sam Varshavchik]

Nathan Huang writes:

> Hi guys
> I face a problem, What 's the difference between these two commands?
> 
> [mirandam at charon ~]$ su -c '/etc/init.d/NetworkManager stop'
> 
> [mirandam at charon ~]$ |su -c '/sbin/service NetworkManager start 

The service command sets up a few things in the environment. In addition, on 
systems that use SELinux, it sets up the right SELinux context.


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