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>but if its not redhat or debian based I couldn't tell you how to start or stop services

The same way as in freebsd "service blabla start" it's a compatibility hook.

on fedora its systemctl instead of service because they are all systemd up, other distros might use something other than systemd and a compatibility hook is entirely dependant on the distro deciding it cares about backwards compatibility which isn't the case for fedora or debian at least in comparison to freebsd you can still build work the old school way.

> on fedora its systemctl instead of service because they are all systemd up

Fedora (and its derivatives like RHEL/CentOS/etc) still has the "service" command, it forwards to the corresponding systemctl command. The same for Debian (the comments in Debian's "service" command even mention it's a modified version of the RHEL/Fedora one).

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