How to check what services are active?

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#1 December 7, 2005

Hi all,

Im new to linux, and esp to ubuntu. Can someone tell me how wud I check what services (http, ftp, ssh, telnet... etc) are active or that are already active? I wanna know the command to check a list of services that are started.

Thanks

#2 December 7, 2005

Hi,

If you're running breezy (v5.10), you can go to System->Administration->Services. Anything in that dialog with a check mark next to it is currently running.

The scripts that control the services can be found in /etc/init.d. These scripts are run when services are started and stopped and can be used from the command line to manually restart services if required.

Hope this helps, Chris

#3 December 7, 2005

Thanks,

So If Web server, DNS, etc are not shown that means that I havent installed it, right?

#4 December 7, 2005

It might mean that, or it might mean they just haven't been started.

#5 December 7, 2005

type "top" at the command prompt. It gives you a great amount of information on running processes. to exit the program, type "q"