On Wednesday 10 September 2003 16:14, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
> 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/

do not write anything that relies on that fact and expect it to be included in 
Gentoo ;)
you can run `/etc/init.d/service status` ... but if you just want it for 
dependency information, just use the 'before after use' syntax in the 
depend() function ... review any script in /etc/init.d, chances are they'll 
have depend()
-mike