Linux Administration Cookbook

How to do it...

At the command line, type the following:

$ systemctl

You should be dropped into a list of systemd units; this is a good initial overview of every unit systemd is aware of, but it's very noisy (as seen in the following screenshot) and what we specifically want to see are daemons (because of our gothic streak):

Services and daemons are somewhat interchangeable in Linux land; for example, systemd refers to daemons as service files. This doesn't stop some people from getting passionately angry about "proper usage".

Try the following:

$ systemctl list-units --type service

You should be given a list of services and their statuses. ...