Quick check of services status

This is just quick and dirty post.

A oneliner to check if all your server services have started rightly after a reboot. This first attempt is aimed for Debian and derivatives:

checkservices () { for service in /etc/rc2.d/S*; do STATUS=$(/etc/init.d/$(ls -l $service | awk '{print $NF}') status 2>/dev/null); [ "$STATUS" != "" ] && printf "Status of ${service##*/}:\t$STATUS\n"; done; }

Example:

root@server:~# checkservices
Status of S04openvpn:    * VPN 'server' is running
Status of S05bind9:      * bind9 is running
Status of S05dhcp3-server:      Status of DHCP server: dhcpd3 is running.
Status of S05sysstat:    * sadc cron jobs are enabled
Status of S06postfix:    * postfix is running

Make it portable (Did I said that this was a quick and dirty post?) :-D

checkservices () { for service in /etc/rc$(runlevel|awk '{print $NF}').d/S*; do STATUS=$(/etc/init.d/$(ls -l $service | awk '{print $NF}') status 2>/dev/null); [ "$STATUS" != "" ] && printf "Status of ${service##*/}:\t$STATUS\n"; done; }

Example (centos server):

[root@server ~]# checkservices
Status of S05kudzu:     kudzu has run
Status of S06cpuspeed:  cpuspeed is stopped
Status of S07iscsid:    iscsid (pid  1980) is running...
Status of S08ip6tables: Firewall is stopped.
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