How to find about Deamons

[raji10k]

Hi Frndz

Is there any command to find which deamon works for which service so that I can get good knowledge about this deamon's

Plz find me

Thanks in Advance.

[Rubberman]

Which distributeion+version of Linux are you running?

[raji10k]

Hi RubberMan

Thanks for response am using
RedHat EL - 4 and kernal is 2.6.9-22.EL

[Rubberman]

As root, run the command "service --status-all". You will get back a list of the status of all the registered services. Most show the daemons that are running, the ones whose names end in the letter 'd', such as snmpd, xinetd, etc. Processes that end in 'd' are commonly service daemons, though not necessarily - this is a custom, not a "standard".

Next, go to the directory /etc/rc.d/init.d where you will find scripts that control the various services. You can find the name of the daemon processes (where appropriate - not all services start daemons) in each script, and often by the name of the script.

I don't know if there is an easier way, though the GUI Administration -> Server Settings -> Server Management UI does provide the names and status of all the available services for your system, provided you are running the KDE GUI. Under the covers, it runs the service command to get that information to display to you.