How To List Services on Linux

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Dec 6, 2020

As a system administrator, you are probably dealing with a lot of services every day.

On Linux, services are used for many different purposes.

They may be used in order to start a SSH server on your machine or they can perform some operations on a specific hour or day.

In this tutorial, you will learn how you can, given your system manager, list all services on your Linux machine.

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