Centos Service not starting - service

Question

Running Centos7, I have init.d service that I'm trying to start. When I do so it comes back with an OK message which = success. Yet when I use TOP I don't see it running.
Now if I take the command that the service should be running from the cat /etc/init.d/XXXX it starts as expected.
How can I go about debugging this? I've checked /messages, and /secure and even dmesg but I don't see anything amiss.

Answer 1

Try systemctl start <command>
Eg if you want to start ssh
systemctl start sshd
or
systemctl start sshd.service
Look for man pages of systemctl
Explaination
CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 / Fedora Linux (many other modern distor) uses Systemd. It is a system and service manager for Linux operating systems. In newer distro such as CentOS7/RHEL7 systemd replaces Upstart as the default init system
In case you have scripts for starting & stopping of a particular process or code
you can place a file /etc/init.d/ directory
with somewhat below logic
#!/bin/bash
SCRIPT_PATH=/pathtoscriptdirectory
case $1 in
start)
sh $SCRIPT_PATH/startup.sh
;;
stop)
sh $SCRIPT_PATH/shutdown.sh
;;
restart)
sh $SCRIPT_PATH/shutdown.sh
sh $SCRIPT_PATH/startup.sh
;;
esac
exit 0
Its good practice to make start stop restart blocks, you can have your custom blocks too
Also make sure that you have executable permission over all the files in this lineup
Then run it like you run the normal services