Good point, on Fedora 26 I see /usr/sbin/service is provided by initscripts-9.72-1.fc26.x86_64 and it's just translating the service commands into systemd equiv

Good point, on Fedora 26 I see /usr/sbin/service is provided by initscripts-9.72-1.fc26.x86_64 and it's just translating the service commands into systemd equivalents. [chris@f26h ~]$ sudo service smartd.service status Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status smartd.service