CLI commands to start and stop services

oletuv

What are the CLI commands to start and stop a service, e.g. Avahi, in pfSense. I tried "service avahi restart" in the Shell but got an "avahi does not exists …" error.

heper


 WAN (wan)       -> em0        -> v4/DHCP4: 74/21
 LAN (lan)       -> em1        -> v4: 10.0.0.1/24
 IPV6_TUNNEL (opt1) -> gif0       -> v6: 2001:ac7::2/128
 OVPN_SHIL (opt2) -> ovpnc1     -> v4: 192.168.222.2/32
 WIFI (opt3)     -> dc0        -> v4: 192.168.101.254/24

 0) Logout (SSH only)                  9) pfTop
 1) Assign Interfaces                 10) Filter Logs
 2) Set interface(s) IP address       11) Restart webConfigurator
 3) Reset webConfigurator password    12) pfSense Developer Shell
 4) Reset to factory defaults         13) Update from console
 5) Reboot system                     14) Disable Secure Shell (sshd)
 6) Halt system                       15) Restore recent configuration
 7) Ping host                         16) Restart PHP-FPM
 8) Shell

Enter an option: 12

Starting the pfSense developer shell....

Welcome to the pfSense developer shell

Type "help" to show common usage scenarios.

Available playback commands:
     changepassword checkopenvpn_status disablecarp disabledhcpd disablereferercheck enableallowallw                                                        
an enablecarp enablesshd externalconfiglocator generateguicert gitsync installpkg listpkg removepkgc                                                        
onfig removeshaper restartdhcpd restartipsec svc tmp2 uninstallpkg 

pfSense shell: playback svc

Playback of file svc started.

Usage: playback svc <action><service name="">[service-specific options]

Examples:
playback svc stop dhcpd
playback svc restart openvpn client 2
playback svc stop captiveportal zone1

pfSense shell:</service></action>

https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Using_the_PHP_pfSense_Shell

oletuv

@oletuv:

What are the CLI commands to start and stop a service, e.g. Avahi, in pfSense. I tried "service avahi restart" in the Shell but got an "avahi does not exists …" error.

service avahi-daemon.sh start
service avahi-daemon.sh stop
service avahi-daemon.sh restart

luckman212

If you want to schedule it via Cron, you can use something like

15    9    *    *    *    root    /usr/local/sbin/pfSsh.php playback svc restart avahi

stuck

@luckman212:

If you want to schedule it via Cron, you can use something like
15    9    *    *    *    root    /usr/local/sbin/pfSsh.php playback svc restart avahi

I know this thread is quite old, but I need to run a command like this via Putty's plink command line. But I keep getting

putty.exe>plink -ssh -pw somepasswd root@192.168.0.1 "/usr/local/sbin/pfSsh.php playback svc restart openvpn client 1"
The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

Any help is appreciated

luckman212

your command looks (mostly) ok – that error seems to be from your Windows machine, not the remote pfSense system. It looks like you have "putty.exe>" in front of the plink.exe on your commandline. Why? that is not correct...
https://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.70/htmldoc/Chapter7.html#plink-usage-interactive