<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>I think it's a standalone service in Precise.<br><blockquote>$ ls /etc/init.d/portmap*<br>/etc/init.d/portmap /etc/init.d/portmap-wait<br></blockquote>I get that there are two groups of services, or maybe five, if you count *inetd, upstart, systemd, sysv, and the other thing whose name I can't recall at the moment.<br><br>I think chkconfig can query them all, and in any systemd system, there's systemctl for anything registered as a unit, but that doesn't help, because Ubuntu Precise doesn't has chkconfig or systemd.<br><br><div><span name="x"></span>--<br>David L. Willson<br>Teacher, Engineer, Evangelist<br>RHCE+Satellite CCAH Network+ A+ Linux+ LPIC-1 UbuntuCP NovellCLA<br>Mobile 720-333-LANS(5267)<br>http://sofree.us<br><br>This is a good time for a r3VOLution.<span name="x"></span><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;">David,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote 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><br>_______________________________________________<br>clue mailing list: clue@cluedenver.org<br>For information, account preferences, or to unsubscribe see:<br>http://cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue</blockquote><br></div></body></html>