How can I determine what services I had running before a new install?

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Background:

want to move from 32-bit to 64-bit environment (taking advantage of >4GB RAM)
bought new HDD and installed new OS
mounted old HDD as a secondary device

Question:

How can I determine all services I had installed and running on the old system?

the question shown as a duplicate (How do you get a list of all starting services?) is interesting - but not at all a duplicate. That question does not deal with how to find what were the services running before a new install (as this question clearly indicates). That question is about what services are running. — warren, May 09 '13 at 17:52

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 09 '13 at 19:08

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Try:

service --status-all

or:

ls /etc/init.d

edited May 09 '13 at 19:08

Seth

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answered May 09 '13 at 18:39

Alok

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the service command won't work - that will show me what is running now ... not what was running :) – warren May 09 '13 at 18:50

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 13 '13 at 13:56

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You can use the chroot command on your partition on which you had old OS. Once you're done with chroot, do anything you want like you are using your old OS again. you can see list of installed packages or you can see the content of /etc/init.d to see list of services.

To do chroot you can can see up to 6th step in http://alok.fossguru.in/content/rescuing-system-chroot

edited May 13 '13 at 13:56

warren

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answered May 12 '13 at 18:15

Alok

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 13 '13 at 14:02

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you can list all the service with sudo initctl list | sort. Give your password after typing the command.

hope that helps.

answered May 13 '13 at 14:02

Raja G

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if I had not already installed the new OS, yes - but without chroot, I don't think this would work – warren May 13 '13 at 15:23

How can I determine what services I had running before a new install?

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