I need to identify the currently running services but I can't figure out the results of running service --status-all
, I mean what does ?, - and + mean ?
$ service --status-all
[ + ] acpid
[ + ] anacron
[ + ] apparmor
[ ? ] apport
[ ? ] atieventsd
[ + ] avahi-daemon
[ ? ] binfmt-support
[ + ] bluetooth
[ - ] brltty
[ + ] console-font
[ + ] console-setup
[ + ] cron
[ + ] cups
[ + ] cups-browsed
[ - ] dbus
[ ? ] dns-clean
[ + ] friendly-recovery
[ - ] grub-common
[ ? ] irqbalance
[ - ] kerneloops
[ ? ] killprocs
[ + ] kmod
[ ? ] lightdm
[ - ] lm-sensors
[ ? ] mysql
[ ? ] networking
[ ? ] ondemand
[ ? ] pppd-dns
[ - ] procps
[ - ] pulseaudio
[ ? ] rc.local
[ + ] resolvconf
[ + ] rfkill-restore
[ + ] rfkill-store
[ - ] rsync
[ + ] rsyslog
[ + ] saned
[ ? ] sendsigs
[ + ] setvtrgb
[ ? ] speech-dispatcher
[ - ] sudo
[ + ] timidity
[ + ] udev
[ ? ] umountfs
[ ? ] umountnfs.sh
[ ? ] umountroot
[ - ] unattended-upgrades
[ - ] urandom
[ + ] virtualbox
[ - ] x11-common
And would running this command with sudo make any difference ? I tried it and in my case it didn't make any difference, but may it differ in other setups ?