<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">David,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">So close. That article fills the ring around the bulls-eye with holes, by telling me how to enable or disable, start or stop, and even status (which only returns current running/stopped), but fails to hit it.</span></div><div class=""><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class="">To be clear, I want to 'get' whether the service is enabled, not 'set' it.<br class=""><br class="">In redhat'ish distros, I would: chkconfig --list some-service<br class=""><br class="">But I'm unable to find the match for that in debian'ish distros. Specifically, how do I do this in Ubuntu Precise?<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Your confusion is coming from that portmap isn’t a service that normally runs. Rather it’s one of the inetd services which are launched when requested. HTH</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div>Raymond</div><div><br class=""></div></div><br class=""></div></body></html>