I want to know: what is the recommended method of checking all running
services across these systems?
Since you are aware of chkconfig
,service
, and may be ntsysv
,rcconf
,
but you can check using below command which almost work in all flavor
ls -1 /etc/rc$(runlevel| cut -d" " -f2).d/S*
What is S* ?
the traditional init style makes symlinks that start with S, or K. those with S means "start", and they are run with the "start" parameter when that runlevel is entered. Those with K means "kill", those services are run with the "stop" parameter when that runlevel is entered
Full details:
ls -1 /etc/rc$(runlevel| cut -d" " -f2).d/S* | \
awk -F'[0-9][0-9]' '{print "Startup :-> " $2}'
Output:
Startup :-> bind9
Startup :-> apt-cacher-ng
Startup :-> slapd
Startup :-> cron
Startup :-> dmesg
Startup :-> inetutils-inetd
Startup :-> ssh
Startup :-> dns-clean
Startup :-> sudo
Startup :-> apache2
Startup :-> grub-common
Startup :-> ondemand
Startup :-> rc.local