OpenRC to systemd Cheatsheet

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This article is for users that have recently converted from OpenRC to systemd . It contains a list of commands commonly used in OpenRC and its equivalent systemd command.

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The following table is not an exhaustive list and is not intended to replace reading man pages .

Command	OpenRC	systemd	Comments
Start a service	/etc/init.d/<service> start rc-service <service> start	systemctl start <service>
Stop a service	/etc/init.d/<service> stop rc-service <service> stop	systemctl stop <service>
Restart a service	/etc/init.d/<service> restart rc-service <service> restart	systemctl restart <service>
Get service status	/etc/init.d/<service> status rc-service <service> status	systemctl status <service>
Show known startup scripts	rc-status rc-update show	systemctl list-units	Shows scripts that exist in runlevels
Show all startup scripts	ls /etc/init.d/ rc-update -v show	systemctl list-unit-files --type=service	Shows all installed scripts
Enable service at startup	rc-update add <service> <runlevel>	systemctl enable <service>
Disable service at startup	rc-update del <service> <runlevel>	systemctl disable <service>

The following table is a list of useful systemd commands that have no OpenRC equivalent:

Command	Syntax	Comments
Disable automatically generated service	systemctl mask <service>	Disables dynamically generated services in systemd, which unit files are generated on demand (usually storage triggered services).
Kill all processes related to service	systemctl kill <service>
Show logs events that happened today, most recent events first	journalctl -r --since=today
Show log events for a specific service	journalctl _SYSTEMD_UNIT=<service>.service

OpenRC to systemd Cheatsheet

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