

Listing Running Services Under SystemD in Linux
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In this guide, we will demonstrate how to list all running services under systemd in Linux. Systemd is a system and service manager for Linux a drop-in replacement for the init process, which is compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts and the systemctl command is the primary tool to manage systemd. Read Also: The Story Behind ‘init’ and ‘systemd’: Why ‘init’ Needed to be Replaced with ‘systemd’ in Linux Most if not all modern Linux distributions now use the same process manager: systemd. Linux supports different ways to manage (start, stop, restart, enable auto-start at system boot, etc.) services, typically through a process or service manager. Technically, a service is a process or group of processes (commonly known as daemons) running continuously in the background, waiting for requests to come in (especially from clients).

A Linux systems provide a variety of system services (such as process management, login, syslog, cron, etc.) and network services (such as remote login, e-mail, printers, web hosting, data storage, file transfer, domain name resolution (using DNS), dynamic IP address assignment (using DHCP), and much more).
