Managing services with systemd

[gihad]

Hi,
I'm having issues managing services on F16 x86_64 with systemd. I've been using chkconfig to see in what levels services were configured to be on or off, and used ntsysv to easilty get a list of the services I had installed and manage their default status.

But I'm having issues doing the same with Systemd. Is there any tool that works like ntsysv? Any command line that would help me achieve that?

Thanks!

[Finalzone]

Check out this systemd guideline

[PabloTwo]

There isn't much left to do with sysV in F16 with the adoption of systemd.

[paul@CarCrusher ~]$ sudo chkconfig --list

Note: This output shows SysV services only and does not include native
      systemd services. SysV configuration data might be overridden by native
      systemd configuration.

iscsi          	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
iscsid         	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
jexec          	0:on	1:on	2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:on
livesys        	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:off	6:off
livesys-late   	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:off	6:off
netconsole     	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:off	6:off
netfs          	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
network        	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:off	6:off
postfix        	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:off	6:off
sandbox        	0:off	1:off	2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
svnserve       	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:off	6:off

The command now to use with most things, instead of "service", is "systemctl". To see the list of services you can command and control with the systemctl command, do:

systemctl list-units --all

This will show, paginated, everything, but the services are now named with a ".service" extension. I have not used ntsysv, and don't know if there is a systemd counterpart, other than chkconfig.

[gihad]

Thanks both of you for your answer!

I haven't tried this on other init level than 5, but what I did to disable the services I didn't want was:

$ systemctl list-units --all | grep .service > services-status.txt

With that I get the full list of services (all of them, actives and inactives).

And then just went one by one doing:

$ systemctl disable SERVICENAME.service

to disable services to not start on bootup. And:

$ systemctl disable SERVICENAME.service

to enable services to start on bootup.

You can also use systemadm on the terminal and it will open a GUI with the same information you'll get using systemctl list-units --all, just be aware that most of the controls are not working properly.

Hopefully this will help someone else!