CentOS 7/RHEL7: How To check Service status

I would like to check the status of a service on my centos 7 or rhel  7 system. How do I check if a service is running or not under centos 7 or rhel 7 operating system? How to get out status of all services on the current cnetos 7 system? this article will guide you how to check a service status on centos 7 system.

You need to use systemctl command with “status” option to get a service status.

Check service status on centos 7


Type the following command:

systemctl status <service name>.service

​or

systemctl status <service name>

For example, if you want to check status of httpd service, just issue the following command:

systemctl status httpd.service

or

systemctl status httpd

outputs:

[root@devops Desktop]# systemctl status httpd.service

httpd.service - The Apache HTTP Server

   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service; disabled)

   Active: active (running) since Tue 2015-01-06 10:14:18 CET; 2s ago

 Main PID: 12948 (httpd)

   Status: "Processing requests..."

   CGroup: /system.slice/httpd.service

           ├─12948 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND

           ├─12949 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND

           ├─12950 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND

           ├─12951 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND

           ├─12952 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND

           └─12953 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND

Jan 06 10:14:17 devops systemd[1]: Starting The Apache HTTP Server...

Jan 06 10:14:18 devops systemd[1]: Started The Apache HTTP Server.

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