Hi there

I am currently creating a powersave program that is pretty simple:

Make a list of services / init.d "services" that are running, shut them down via init.d scripts (the proper way) for power save and then (since the list was saved) restart them later again.

I have tried this out and there is a lot of watts to save.

But how can I figure out which init.d services are running currently?
most init.d scripts under Debian / Ubuntu don't offer a status function (running / not running)

Is there a standardized way these services and servers log themselved in some directory so that I can know that they are running?

I can of course see a list of them running with ps, but not from which init.d script they originated.

Cheers

Markus

This isn't foolproof, but you may be able to adapt it to your needs ... A lot of services will write a /var/run/*.pid file. In many case the asterisk (*) will be the name of the file in /etc/init.d. Sadly, this is not always the case.