FreeBSD Service Management

How to start, stop, restart a service in FreeBSD

Syntax: 
# service name {start,stop,restart}

Stop sshd:
# service sshd stop

AND

# /etc/rc.d/sshd stop


Start sshd:
# service sshd start

AND

# /etc/rc.d/sshd start

Restart sshd:
# service sshd restart

AND

# /etc/rc.d/sshd restart


Yo can find out if a service is running or not with ps or /path/to/service status:

$ ps aux | grep ssh
OR: 
/etc/*.d/ssh status