On 10/09/2003 at 19:32:15(+0100), Gustavo Adolfo Silva Ribeiro Felisberto used 1.4K just to say:
> 
> Is there a way to
> know the status of a particular service witought having to do a
> /etc/init.d/service status ?

Currently, it seems you can check if there is a link in
/var/lib/init.d/started/

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