How can I list all enabled
services from systemctl
?
I know running systemctl
command by itself lists all services, but I would like to only get the enabled
ones.
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Sign up to join this communitysystemctl list-unit-files | grep enabled
will list all enabled ones.
If you want which ones are currently running, you need systemctl | grep running
.
Use the one you're looking for. Enabled, doesn't mean it's running. And running doesn't mean it's enabled. They are two different things.
Enabled means the system will run the service on the next boot. So if you enable a service, you still need to manually start it, or reboot and it will start.
Running means it's actually running right now, but if it's not enabled, it won't restart when you reboot.
systemctl | grep running
do not list anything to me! Even if something is running is only listed as for his status like: enabled, disabled, masked, static
– Cirelli94
Apr 13 '17 at 10:34
man systemctl
states:
--state=
The argument should be a comma-separated list of unit
LOAD
,SUB
, orACTIVE
states. When listing units, show only those in the specified states. Use--state=failed
to show only failed units.
Explanation:
LOAD
: Reflects whether the unit definition was properly loaded.
ACTIVE
: The high-level unit activation state, i.e. generalization of SUB
.
SUB
: The low-level unit activation state, values depend on unit type.
Though you can also use this to only show enabled
units with:
systemctl list-unit-files --state=enabled
If a unit is enabled
that means that the system will start it on startup. Though setting something to enabled
doesn't actually also start
it so you will need to do that manually, or reboot the system after setting it to enabled
.
systemctl enable --now ...
– Aurélien Ooms
Jul 29 '17 at 20:24
--state=enabled
has no effect on systemd version 215 (on Raspbian 8 Jessie), but it does work on systemd version 229 (on Ubuntu 16.04.03 Xenial).
– mpb
Dec 17 '17 at 22:15
To list all the systemd
service which are in state=active
and sub=running
systemctl list-units --type=service --state=running
To list all the systemd
serice which are in state=active
and sub either running or exited
systemctl list-units --type=service --state=active
To see 'enabled' services including these that are still under upstart/init run:
systemctl list-unit-files --type service --state enabled,generated
To see all of the currently running services run:
systemctl list-units --type service --state running
sshd
vs. ssh
and syslog
vs. rsyslog
.
– OrangeDog
Jan 11 '19 at 18:35
Also overview of all active and failed services:
systemctl list-units --type service --state running,failed
There is a good GUI application called Stacer where you can manage all the services.
Check its Github link Stacer Github
Also check Web for more info
In addition to the current answers, I use the following to get just the names of the services:
systemctl list-units --type=service --state=active,running | awk '/.*\.service/ {print $1}'
Rather than the tabular format, this makes it easier to pipe just those services to another program
man systemctl
. – Jos Jul 5 '16 at 18:35