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RunLevels RunLevel Starting Services Starting Linux Listing Services Services in A acon acpi acpid adsl aep1000 alsa alsasound amd anacron apmd apmiser arpwatch atd auditd autofs Services in B bcm5820 bgpd bluetooth bootparamd Services in C canna capi4linux cpqarrayd cpufreq cpuspeed crond cups cups-config-daemon cups-lpd cvs cxoffice cyrus-imapd Services in D dc_client dc_server devfsd dhcp6r dhcp6s dhcpd dhcrelay diald diskdump dkms dm dnbc dovecot drakxtools_http dund Services in E exim Services in F fam finger firstboot FreeWnn freshclam Services in G gpm gssftp Services in H haldaemon harddrake heartbeat hidd hplip hpoj httpd

Services in I ibmasm ibod identd iiim imaps ip6tables ipaliases iplog ipmi ipop2 ipop3 ipsec iptables ipvsadmin irda irqbalance iscsi isdn Services in K kadmin keytable kheader killall klogin kprop krb524 krb5kdc kshell ktalk kudzu Services in L lads laptop?mode ldap leafnode lisa lm_sensors Services in M mailman mandi mdadm mdmonitor mdmpd mdnsresponder messagebus microcode_ctl mon multipathd mysqld named Services in N netdump netdump-server netfs netplugd NetworkManager nfs nfsfs nfslock nifd nscd ntalk ntpd numlock Services in O oddjobd oki4daemon openibd opensmd ospf6d ospfd Services in P pand partmon pcmcia

pg_autovacuum pop3s portmap postfix postgresql pptp prelude psacct pureftpd Services in R rawdevices readahead readahead_early rhnsd ripd ripngd rpcgssd rpcidmapd rpcsvcgssd rstatd rsync rusersd rwhod Services in S saned saslauthd sendmail sgi_fam shorewall smartd smb snmpd snmptrapd sound spamassassin squid sshd subversion swat syslog sysstat Services in T tftp timeupd tmdns tog-pegasus tux Services in U ultrabay upsd upsmon Services in V vncserver Services in W Webmin winbind wine wlan Services in X xfs xinetd ypbind Services in Y yppasswdd ypserv ypxfrd yum Services in Z zebra Feedback

Introduction to Linux Services

Linux is a UNIX-like operating system. It is one of the most prominent open source softwares.

A Linux service is a set of runlevel applications that run in the background, waiting to be used, or carrying out essential tasks.

Now let's see what are the linux services. In the next page we can see How to use Linux Services.

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