[Solved]Determining which daemons have been started.

ewaller · 2009-08-21 06:47:10

I am a newbie to Arch having used Gentoo for years. I have searched the arch wiki and forums and have been unable to find any good tools for determining which daemons are currently running.

Obviously, one can use ps -ef, but it generates a bunch of extra cruft unreleated to daemons.

I am looking for something similar to gentoos' rc-status . I fully realize everything gets started in rc.conf or in inittab, but sometimes I find it convient to do some stuff by hand -- like ssh into the box and start apache only when I want to use it, and stop it when I'm done. Often I forget what my boxes' state is.

Thanks.

Last edited by ewaller (2009-08-21 16:40:20)

SpeedVin · 2009-08-21 06:54:50

Maybe try

ls /var/run/deamons

Acecero · 2009-08-21 07:08:03

Really? You have not found any good tools? Cause I swear I saw something.

Profjim · 2009-08-21 08:08:21

Although this depends on the /etc/rc.d/whatever author to call etc/rc.d/functions:add_daemon.

ewaller · 2009-08-21 16:39:18

Thank you everyone,

SpeedVin: That certainly meets the KISS principal and will work for almost all of my needs.
Acecero: That script is just what I asked for and it works great.
Profjim: Noted.

Note to self -- don't try searching late at night and on your way to bed. I tried everyhing about daemons except "rc-status". Result: minor hits to forum karma.

ewaller

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[Solved]Determining which daemons have been started.

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