On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 07:55:46AM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi Joel, > > Joel Rees wrote on Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 03:16:02PM +0900: > > > What I'm thinking of is a tool that would allow one to query > > whether a daemon is installed, > > pkg_info(1)
Or if by deamon you mean an rc.d script, running the following command will display all currently available services along with their currently defined rc.conf flags: $ rcctl getall If you want to know which flags a particular daemon is using, you can run: $ rcctl get identd flags NO # <- output the currently configured flags $ rcctl getdef identd flags -e # <- output the default flags for when the daemon is enabled You can get even more information if you don't pass any argument, e.g: $ rcctl get identd identd_flags=NO identd_timeout=30 identd_user=root As for start|stop|restart..., all rc.d scripts take the same arguments: start, stop, restart, reload, check. Some do not support a particular action (some daemons for e.g. do not support reloading their configuration, so "reload" does not work) -- in this case, running the script without argument will tell you: # /etc/rc.d/spamd usage: /etc/rc.d/spamd [-df] start|stop|restart|check # /etc/rc.d/sshd usage: /etc/rc.d/sshd [-df] start|stop|restart|reload|check I have that answers some of your questions. -- Antoine
