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Date:      Mon, 07 Jan 2002 20:07:10 -0600
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        Philip Paeps <philip@paeps.cx>
Cc:        Allen May <umayxa3@donet.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Differences between FreeBSD and Mandrake 
Message-ID:  <200201080207.g0827AF51245@grumpy.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Philip Paeps <philip@paeps.cx>  of "Mon, 07 Jan 2002 17:03:59 %2B0100." <20020107170358.B561@beastie.paeps.cx> 

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Philip Paeps writes:
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 06:33:04AM -0500, Allen May wrote:
>  
> > In Mandrake, the current running DAEMON's are in the init.d directory.. 
> > were are they in FreeBSD? I don't have an /etc/init.d directory.
> 
> FreeBSD does not use the SysV style init stuff, instead we have a BSD-style
> rc(8) system.  To see which daemons are currently running, you could use ps(1)
> or a similar tool.  Generally, I also find that the contents of /var/run are
> interesting...

I do not believe Allen's statement is completely correct. I cut my Unix
teeth on Irix and early Linux but have been away from SysV for a few
years. So the /etc/init.d/ directory (isn't it /etc/rc.d/ ??) is where
you put links to startup and shutdown scripts (some launch daemons) but
is not a listing of the running daemons.

"ps -aux" will result in a list of everything running on FreeBSD. Think
its "ps -ef" on Linux (varied on flavor of Linux back when I got tired
of Linux) and know its "ps -ef" on Irix.

But then again "top" is a pretty good quick look at what is running.

-- 
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
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