inspect – Frank Stolle

To inspect a systemd service, you need some handy commands.

Examine service names

First you have to get the correct service name you want to inspect.

systemctl list-units --type=service

You can use grep to filter the list.

You can show the current status of a service with:

systemctl status servicename

Then you can display all options that describe the service:

systemctl show servicename

And you can show all files which belongs to the service description:

systemctl cat servicename