Serves starting at start up Debian?

[miros84]

When I start Debian, it lists a lot of servers, deamons and other programs that run at debian start.
is there some list anywhere that I can edit or just see it?

[Absent Minded]

You an install BUM (Boot Up Manager) to see and view these servers and processes.

[izar]

Also installing sysv-rc-conf will allow you to see the daemons and servers that are started for each one of the run-levels. You can also enable or disable them at startup.

[Ahtiga Saraz]

When I start Debian, it lists a lot of servers, deamons and other programs that run at debian start.
is there some list anywhere that I can edit or just see it?

Yes! The list might not be what you had in mind, but it works (at least on my Debian Lenny system):

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cd /etc/rc5.d
ls

This shows some scripts, one for each daemon started when booting into run level 5 (windowing). Then looking atone of these scripts, say
/etc/init.d/cups
shows the location of the binary which it starts at boot time
/usr/sbin/cupsd
And if you don't know that that does,

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man cupsd 

tells you that it handles printing.

Actually there are probably some more daemons in /etc/rcS.d

The basic runlevels are

• 0: shutdown
• 1: single user (root) or "console mode" or "repair mode"
• 5: multiuser with windowing: what you probably get when you boot up
• 6: reboot

Next, in a shell

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su
netstat -pn -l -A inet && lsof -i | grep LISTEN

(you'll be prompted for root password) will show which of these daemons are listening on which ports.

[smallchange]

In Debian the default runlevel is 2. You can see this by looking in /etc/inittab. X is not started depending on the runlevel as in some other distributions, but depending on whether or not a display manager is installed. It is possible to alter any of runlevels 2-5 to set them to run without X, but that is not the default.

Listing the files in /etc/rc2.d will give you some idea of what is running, but some things are started from /etc/rcS.d.