How do you get a list of all starting services?

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I know about the update-rc.d SERVICE OPTIONS command to add and remove services from startup, but how do I use it to get a list of all the services that are currently configured to start at startup?

Is there some other way to get this list?

score 241 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 26 '16 at 16:55

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See the attached link.

UbuntuBootupHowto

The command is

service --status-all

edited Sep 26 '16 at 16:55

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answered Aug 20 '11 at 00:46

Justin Andrusk

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Thanks, the `service --status-all` did it, though I still have to find a legend to determine exactly what those symbols mean. – Lance Roberts Aug 20 '11 at 01:02
@Lance: there is a bug in managing option `--status-all`, see this AU question: http://askubuntu.com/questions/55992/running-services – enzotib Aug 20 '11 at 10:47
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I realize this is a little dated, but from my reading of the man page, it sounds as if this lists the current status, not whether they're configured to start? "service --status-all runs all init scripts, in alphabetical order, with the status command. This option only calls status for sysvinit jobs, upstart jobs can be queried in a similar manner with initctl list'." – ernie Nov 05 '13 at 22:33
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List of pretty much everything relevant that is running `initctl list | egrep -v " stop/waiting|^tty" ; service --status-all 2>&1 | egrep -v "\[ (\?|\-) \]"` – kert Mar 21 '15 at 20:47
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`+` = running, `-` = stopped service. `?` = managed by upstart (run `initctl list` to get the status of these) – dave1010 Apr 28 '15 at 09:36
Does anyone know how to pipe this to less or a file? Using `service --status-all > myfile.txt 2&>1` writes a few lines to the file, and leaves the rest as output on the terminal. I can't grep the output either. – Tyler Collier Jun 18 '15 at 13:54
This lists the services that *have been started*, not the services that *will be started upon booting the server* which is what the original question asks for. – Reinier Post May 08 '17 at 15:18
Does this require `systemd`? – Aaron Franke Apr 29 '19 at 05:21

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 20 '11 at 00:54

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You could use BUM.

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answered Aug 20 '11 at 00:54

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This looks nice, but I'm too new with Ubuntu to know how to install this on my virtual server, that I PuTTY into (or if it's even possible). – Lance Roberts Aug 20 '11 at 01:04
Do you have a graphical environment? – desgua Aug 20 '11 at 01:07
No, just a terminal session. – Lance Roberts Aug 20 '11 at 01:12
Well, BUM is a graphical tool, so the command you've mentioned above seems to fit better yours needs. – desgua Aug 20 '11 at 01:18
You can install this without graphical tools. X apps can run remotely. Yes, even on Windows. You just have to tell each app where to run (e.g. IP address). It's possible, you can Google the specifics. – David Betz Jan 13 '16 at 18:26

How do you get a list of all starting services?

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