---
title: "Starting, Restarting, and Stopping the Hyperscience Application"
slug: "starting-restarting-and-stopping-the-hyperscience-application"
updated: 2025-01-21T17:30:37Z
published: 2025-01-21T17:30:37Z
canonical: "help.hyperscience.ai/starting-restarting-and-stopping-the-hyperscience-application"
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.hyperscience.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Starting, Restarting, and Stopping the Hyperscience Application

> [!NOTE]
> Note that you can run Docker commands on Podman with the *podman-docker* package. To learn how to install the *podman-docker* package, see [step 2 of Configuring Podman in RHEL 8](/deployment/docs/configuring-podman-in-rhel-8#configuring-podman).

To start, restart, or stop the Hyperscience application, you can run the following command:

```bash
sudo bash run.sh [--force] [--start|--restart|--stop] [--clean] <role>
```

The `&lt;role&gt;` could be one of `init` | `backend` | `frontend` | `db`. The default value is `backend` *and* `frontend`.

`--start` starts the Hyperscience role. This is the default option.

`--restart` restarts the Hyperscience role.

`--stop` stops the Hyperscience role.

`--clean` combined with `--stop` removes the application containers. An example of this combination is shown in the following command:

```bash
sudo bash run.sh --stop --clean
```

`--clean` combined with `--restart` recreates the application containers. An example of this combination is shown below:

```bash
sudo bash run.sh --restart --clean
```