Services and Daemons

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

• Determining running services
• Listing installed services
• Starting and stopping services
• Changing which services start and stop at boot
• Common services you might expect to see
• Understanding service unit files
• Customizing systemd unit files
• Testing running services
• Writing a basic unit file
• Working with systemd timers (and cron)
• Other init systems