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systemctl is used to examine and control the state of “systemd” system and
service manager.
systemd is system and service manager for most Unix like operating systems
As the system boots up, the first process created, i.e. init process with
PID = 1, is systemd system that initiates the userspace services.
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$ sudo systemctl stop httpd.service
$ sudo systemctl status httpd.service