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Choose XGS Firewall modelEven a Sophos Firewall is just a operating system on a piece of hardware. And like any other operating system, there are security vulnerabilities, updates or services that can hang, although this is very rarely the case with the Sophos Firewall.
In this article I explain how to restart a service on the firewall.
Some services can be restarted by using the Web Admin GUI. It should be self-explanatory how this works.
However, you cannot restart all firewall services via the browser and therefore there is still the way via the console.
To get full control, you can log on to the firewall’s Advanced Shell by SSH.
Secondly, you need a list of all services that are available on the firewall. For this purpose, there is a list Log file details with the name of the services in the Sophos KB.
However, you can also show all services with the following command on the Advanced Shell:
service -S
However, since you may not know what the zebra service does exactly, the list in the Sophos KB: Log file details will help. Here you will see that it is the static routing service.
If you want to restart this zebra service, you can do so with the following command:
service -ds nosync zebra:restart
If the service is to be stopped and restarted first, there are two individual commands for this as well.
service zebra:stop -dsnosync
service zebra:start -dsnosync
We stay with the Zebra service and now we want to check what the status is, for example, to find out if it is running:
service zebra:status -dsnosync
Here are some sample commands to restart some other services. If you do not have the Web Admin GUI running, you can restart it as follows: Restart Sophos Firewall Web Admin GUI
service awed:stop -dsnosync
service awed:start -dsnosync
service -ds nosync smtpd:restart
service -ds nosync strongswan:restart
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