Action command for Linux stop service

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Hi All,

any help to stop or start the service on linux platform using bigfix action command

Thanks,
Nagaraj.

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you have to use rest api to fire the action or stop it.

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using bigfix action any possibility to do this ?

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Greetings.

You can start, stop and restart Linux services by creating a custom task to do so. I have one that is simply a shell script that restarts Apache:

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You can also wrap this into action script like so:

delete __appendfile

appendfile #!/bin/sh
appendfile service httpd restart

//modify appendfile to allow execution
wait chmod 555 "{(client folder of current site as string) & “/__appendfile”}

//execute shell script as written
wait “{(client folder of current site as string) & “/__appendfile”}”

Or you can simply do this:

wait service httpd restart

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Thanks for the updates and i am getting permission set error like below

Completed delete __appendfile
Completed appendfile #!/bin/sh
Completed appendfile service firewalld restart
Completed //modify appendfile to allow execution
Failed wait chmod 555 "{(client folder of current site as string) & “/__appendfile”}
//execute shell script as written
wait “{(client folder of current site as string) & “/__appendfile”}”

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I have changed the permission 755 for __appendfile and working fine.

Completed delete __appendfile
Completed appendfile #!/bin/sh
Completed appendfile service firewalld restart
Completed //modify appendfile to allow execution
Completed wait chmod 755 "{(client folder of current site as string) & “/__appendfile”}
//execute shell script as written
completed wait “{(client folder of current site as string) & “/__appendfile”}”

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Be aware that on some hardened systems you cannot +x any file in /var so in that case you could /bin/sh __appendfile and just run the file. Note you don’t need the client folder as that is the current directory.

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