----- Original Message ---- > From: Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden at gmail.com> > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 6:29:43 PM > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Processes to disable > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:03, Bogdan Nicolescu wrote: > >> > To see the names of all the services installed on your system: > >> > ls /etc/rc.d/init.d > >> > >> Using 'chkconfig --list' makes more sense than listing the init.d directory. > > > > chkconfig --list doesn't necessarily list all the services in /etc/rc.d/init.d > > It does list all that were properly registered. If a service is not > listed by chkconfig --list, it means it was not registered with > chkconfig --add, and it probably means that there was a problem while > installing the package. AFAIK, if it does not show in chkconfig --list > you will not be able to activate it with 'chkconfig on' > either. > > Filipe Not properly registered with chkconfig doesn't necessarily mean that a service is not installed. service --status-all is probably a better choice in finding the status of all the scripts in init.d, and not just those registered withc chkconfig. bn