Level Up 1: Understands init scripts and can use init.d to start and stop services

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1. On a Linux development VM, use init scripts to restart sshd. Y'know, just in case.

sshd requires execution with an absolute path, so use,'which sshd' to find the path: /usr/sbin/sshd

sudo service ssh start
sudo service ssh restart

2. Let's pretend you just changed your nginx config, and want to reload the changes without stopping the service altogether. Invoke the init script without any arguments to see valid choices. Now run the correct init command to parse and load the config without stopping the server.

sudo service nginx reload