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CentOS/RHEL:CheckIfAServiceIsRunningOrNot
byV I V E K GI TE onJ UNE 9, 2013 las t updat ed DE CE MB E R 13, 2013
inCE NTOS ,MONI TORI NG,RE DHAT A ND FRI E NDS

H owdoIfindoutifaservicesuchasMySQLorApacherunningonmy
Centos/RHEL/FedoraLinuxserver?

Youneedtouseservicecommand.ItrunsaSystemVinitscriptinaspredictable
environmentaspossible,removingmostenvironmentvariablesandwithcurrentworking
directorysetto/.Thesyntaxisasfollows:

NetCrunchNetworkMonitoring

Allinonenetworkandsystemmonitoring
suitethatsetsupinminutes

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serviceSERVERstatus

OR

/etc/init.d/SERVERstatus

Examples

Find,outifaservicecalledmysqld(MySQLserver)isrunningonCentOSORRHEL.Open
aterminalorloginusingssh,enter:

#servicemysqldstatus

Sampleoutputs:

mysqld(pid7556)isrunning...

Findoutstatusofallservices
Theservicestatusallcommandrunsallinitscripts,inalphabeticalorder,withthe
statuscommand:

#servicestatusall

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Sampleoutputs:

....
...
.....
irqbalance(pid2183)isrunning...
iscsiisstopped
iscsidisstopped
Kdumpisoperational
i5k_ambisa0000
Adapter:ISAadapter
Ch.0DIMM0:+63.0C(low=+127.5C,high=+127.5C)
Ch.0DIMM1:+56.5C(low=+127.5C,high=+127.5C)
Ch.1DIMM0:+62.0C(low=+127.5C,high=+127.5C)
Ch.1DIMM1:+49.0C(low=+127.5C,high=+127.5C)
Ch.2DIMM0:+54.0C(low=+127.5C,high=+127.5C)
Ch.3DIMM0:+49.0C(low=+127.5C,high=+127.5C)

coretempisa0000
Adapter:ISAadapter
Core0:+37.0C(high=+78.0C,crit=+100.0C)
Core1:+38.0C(high=+78.0C,crit=+100.0C)
Core2:+34.0C(high=+78.0C,crit=+100.0C)
Core3:+38.0C(high=+78.0C,crit=+100.0C)

coretempisa0001
Adapter:ISAadapter
Core0:+40.0C(high=+78.0C,crit=+100.0C)
Core1:+40.0C(high=+78.0C,crit=+100.0C)
Core2:+39.0C(high=+78.0C,crit=+100.0C)
Core3:+39.0C(high=+78.0C,crit=+100.0C)

w83627hfisa0290
Adapter:ISAadapter
in0:+4.08V(min=+0.00V,max=+4.08V)
in1:+4.08V(min=+0.00V,max=+4.08V)
in2:+4.08V(min=+2.82V,max=+3.79V)ALARM
in3:+3.07V(min=+4.08V,max=+4.05V)ALARM
in4:+3.12V(min=+4.08V,max=+4.08V)ALARM
in5:+3.15V(min=+4.08V,max=+4.06V)ALARM
in6:+3.20V(min=+4.08V,max=+4.06V)ALARM
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in7:+3.28V(min=+3.82V,max=+4.06V)ALARM
in8:+3.28V(min=+4.06V,max=+4.06V)ALARM
fan1:0RPM(min=0RPM,div=2)
fan2:0RPM(min=0RPM,div=2)
fan3:0RPM(min=0RPM,div=2)
temp1:48.0C(high=+60.0C,hyst=+55.0C)sensor=thermistor
temp2:48.0C(high=+80.0C,hyst=+75.0C)sensor=thermistor
temp3:48.0C(high=+80.0C,hyst=+75.0C)sensor=thermistor
cpu0_vid:+1.419V
beep_enable:enabled

lvmetadisstopped
mdmonitorisstopped
memcached(pid45560)isrunning...
messagebus(pid7066)isrunning...
mysqld(pid7556)isrunning...
netconsolemodulenotloaded
Configureddevices:
loeth0eth1
Currentlyactivedevices:
loeth0eth1
rpc.svcgssdisstopped
rpc.mountd(pid7199)isrunning...
nfsd(pid72627261726072597258725772567255)isrunning...
rpc.rquotad(pid7195)isrunning...
rpc.statd(pid2215)isrunning...
ntpd(pid7295)isrunning...
master(pid7649)isrunning...
Processaccountingisenabled.
ipmi_msghandlermodulenotloaded.
ipmi_simodulenotloaded.
ipmi_devintfmodulenotloaded.
/dev/ipmi0doesnotexist.
quota_nldisstopped
rdiscisstopped
.....
..

psorpgrepcommand

Youcanusepsorpgrepcommandasfollowstofindoutifserviceisrunningornoton
RHEL/Centos:

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#psaux|grep'serviceNameHere'
#psaux|grep'mysqld'

OR

#pgrepserviceNameHere
##matchusername##
#pgrepuuserNameserviceNameHere
#pgrepmysqld
#pgrepumysqlmysqld

Startingservice

Sayifaservicecalledhttpdisnotrunningonserverandyouwishtostartthesame:

#servicehttpdstatus
##ifhttpdisnotrunningstartit##
#chkconfighttpdon
#servicehttpdstart

References

Formoreinformationseemanpagesservice(8),pgrep(1),ps(1).

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Commentsonthisentryareclosed.

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JalalHajigholamali June10,2013,2:50am

Hi,
Thanksfornicearticle

someservicescreateafileunder/var/runwhenstarting
forexamplevsftpd.pidoratd.pid

wecancheckexistenceofthesefiles

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ZdenekStyblik June10,2013,7:09am

Hello,

Ithinkthereisatypo.AtfirstitssaidtouseserviceSERVERstatsor/etc/init.d/SERVER
stats.However,lateritsshowntousestatus,eg.#servicemysqldstatus.Ibelievethe
latteriscorrectandformerwrong.

Cheers!

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meow June10,2013,2:50pm

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expectingRHEL7alongwithsystemd

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Angelos July10,2013,1:11pm

Ifonlyrealitywouldbealwayssorosy!

Therearecaseswhereaserviceiswedgedsobadlythatevenifyougiveitaservice
statuscommand,theoutputwellleadyouastray.SayforexampleopenVPN,ifitis
wedgedtheonlywaytofindoutistoPinganotherserver.
Othertimessomecustominitscripts,firsttramplethePIDfilebeforeissuingarealstart
command.Inthatcasesubsequentstatuscommandswillgiveyouerrors.

Sopleaseusetheoutputofthevariousservicestatuscommandsasadvicenotasthereal
status,therewillbecasesthatyouwillneedtodebugfurther.

GoodLuck

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sandy September21,2013,5:55pm

HIguysamnewtolinux,soHelpme
Howtogetdetails(forawebserver)thosewhocameandaccessthepagesandwhatare
Tosearch,typeandhitenter
alltheservicesrunningandfromwhichtimeit(services)startedtorun?

Thanksforresolvethis

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GauravBhayana December13,2013,10:33am

HiTeam

Pleaserectifythispost.BelowmentionedcommanddoesntexistinRHEL/CenrOS/
Fedora.

serviceSERVERstats
OR
/etc/init.d/SERVERstats

Itshouldbe

servicestatus
OR
/etc/init.d/status

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GauravBhayana December13,2013,10:35am
Itshouldbe

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serviceservicenamestatus
OR
/etc/init.d/servicenamestatus

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Varun January8,2016,12:46am
Yeah..That`scorrect!!Thanks@Gaurav

#serviceservicenamestatus
OR
#/etc/init.d/servicenamestatus

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arefghobadi August16,2015,10:53am

Thanksfornicearticle

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