Wayne Dawson on Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:53:16 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] "services" under Linux

At 10:18 AM 3/11/03 -0500, you wrote: 
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 10:02:40AM -0800, Wayne Dawson wrote:
> Apparently a "service" is not precisely defined in terms of the software
> architecture, but simply means some software that in one way or another
> resides on the system for the purpose of providing a service (or services)
> to other software that may need it (or them).

Rubbish. It's precisely defined as Red Hat's goony way of referring
to scripts in /etc/init.d in order to make Windows admins feel more
comfortable under Linux.

You see that list when you run services because of the pidfiles in
/var/run.

Ok, so "services" is a goony Red Hat thing to sound more like Windows. That part I get.

By the way, although there's some correlation between the "services" listed and the /var/run/*.pid files, they don't match exactly. I see a very high correlation, although still not perfect, between "services" and S* scripts in my /etc/rc.d/rc5.d directory.
pidfiles "Services" S* scripts
anacron S90anacron
atd.pid atd S95atd
autofs S20autofs
crond.pid crond S90crond
cyrus-master.pid cyrus-imapd S65cyrus-imapd
gdm.pid
gpm.pid gpm S85gpm
ip6tables S08ip6tables
ipchains S08ipchains
iptables S08iptables
keytable S17keytable
klogd.pid
kudzu S05kudzu
mdmonitor S99mdmonitor
microcode_ctl S00microcode_ctl
netfs S25netfs
network S10network
nfslock S14nfslock
portmap S13portmap
privoxy.pid privoxy S84privoxy
random S20random
syslogd.pid syslog S12syslog
wine S98wine
xfs.pid S90xfs
xinetd.pid xinetd S56xinetd
S99local

Wayne

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