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Services in UNIX/Linux are more commonly referred to as daemons. See the section "Network Services" below for examples of common services/daemons that run on UNIX/Linux machines.

Related programs and directories

/etc/init.d/ (ex: /etc/init.d/apache stop ) (all distros)

rc-status (shows you what is running)

rc-update (ex: rc-update add postfix default ) (Gentoo)

service (Red Hat)

See Also: rc_script

Network services

• Web Servers:

Apache

• Mail Servers:

Sendmail

Postfix

• DNS/ Naming Servers:

Bind

• File Sharing Servers

Samba Lisa

NFS

AFS

• Administration Servers:

Webmin

• Print Servers:

Cups Lpr

• Desktop Serving:

X

Display_Managers

Local services

Cron

devfsd ??

Advanced Linux Sound Architecture

famd file altereration monitor daemon