next previous | Resources • Knife • Recipe DSL • Learn Chef • Search the Docs • Home » Table Of Contents chef-server-ctl (executable) Options Examples ¶ The open source Chef server includes a command-line utility named chef-server-ctl, which is used to start and stop individual services, reconfigure the Chef server, and tail Chef server log files. ¶ This command has the following syntax: chef-server-ctl OPTION This command has the following options: help Shows help for the command. reconfigure Use to reconfigure the Chef server. This option will read from the /etc/chef-server/chef-server.rb file and apply that configuration to the Chef server. Any time changes are made to the chef-server.rb file, the chef-server-ctl command should be run with this option. restart [SERVICE_NAME] Use to restart all enabled services or to restart a single service. st...