I was actually talking about RHEL 7, which uses systemd. When you type "service foo restart", it redirects to "systemctl restart foo.service" and prints a messa

I was actually talking about RHEL 7, which uses systemd. When you type "service foo restart", it redirects to "systemctl restart foo.service" and prints a message saying so. It's a nice way to nudge people to use the new command without being obtuse, redundant, or confusing.