Controlling Services in CentOS
There are various ways and tools to find and list all running services under Fedora / RHEL / CentOS Linux systems. service command - list running services
service --status-all service --status-all | grep ntpd service --status-all | less
Print the status of any service
To print the status of apache (httpd) service:
service httpd status
List all known services (configured via SysV)
chkconfig --list
List service and their open ports
netstat -tulpn
Turn on / off service
ntsysv chkconfig service off chkconfig service on chkconfig httpd off chkconfig ntpd on
ntsysv is a simple interface for configuring runlevel services which are also configurable through chkconfig. By default, it configures the current runlevel. Just type ntsysv and select service you want to run: