List of debian services

One way to find information about running services is to run 'netstat -lp'. This command shows information about all listening ports (including the program name in the last column). You can use 'dpkg -S program_name' to find out the corresponding debian package name. Then use 'dpkg -p package_name' to find more information about the package and finally decide whether you need this service or not.

I am unclear on precisely what you are asking. Do you wish to know what services, which I will rephrase as daemon from this point forward, are installed by default when performing a Debian install? Or do you simply wish to know what daemons are installed currently on your system and in what runlevel(s), if any, they are configured to run?

If the latter, I would suggest installing sysvconfig which presents a TUI for querying the current and modifying the desired status of any set or subset of system daemons.

You may also be interested in the update-rd.c, which is almost certainly already included, for modifying daemon-runlevel configurations.

Install the program sysv-rc-conf.

You'll probably have to take a look at the init scripts in /etc/init.d/ and google them to find out what services they start/provide. Another possibility is to ps -ef and google any of the processes you don't know so you can determine if they are needed or not.

You could use rcconf, it is similar to sysv-rc-conf but uses ncurses.

Assuming you added yourself to sudoers just sudo apt-get install rcconf then run rconf. it lets you choose which services you want to start or stop.

You will of course need to research which ones you do or don't want running, I would just google them as which ones you want running really depends on what you're doing with your server.