Common services you might expect to see

In this section, we're going to run down a list of common services you might expect to see on a given box. This list won't be comprehensive, as what services are there by default can change, even between distribution releases.

How to do it...

List out the services on our system, even those that are static and disabled:

$ systemctl list-unit-files --type service

Scroll through the list, searching with / if you're using the default pager (less).

auditd.service

Starting at the top, we have auditd.service, "the Linux...