Restarting service issue

[fear_matrix]

I am recently learning about linux (Cent OS) and i came across to a weird problem. I am going through a chapter "Managing Services" and in the book its written to restart a network i should use the below command

/etc/init.d/network restart

But when i am using the above command nothing is happening. Instead when i use this command "/etc/init.d/service network restart", i am able to restart. Could anyone explain what is the difference ????

[coopstah13]

the first command should work, but typically on redhat based distro you will just use service command to do the work, like service network restart

[Mudgen]

And in fact, the second command "/etc/init.d/service network restart" should not work, unless for some reason you've copied the /sbin/service binary to /etc/init.d. The command should be as coopstah gives it, or fully qualified as /sbin/service network restart.

[Dustspeck]

service is a wrapper for the scripts in /etc/init.d/. It makes the interface consistent and provides an interface to manage multiple services at the same time.