services output oddity

[Dave Stevens]

It's handy to check that some service or other is up and running  
without necessarily invoking the service. Enter the U10.04 service  
command. See below


dave at cl28810:~$ uname -a
Linux cl28810 2.6.18-238.12.1.el5.028stab091.1PAE #1 SMP Wed Jun 1  
13:59:03 MSD 2011 i686 GNU/Linux

dave at cl28810:~$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS \n \l



# service --status-all > servicesrunning.txt
  [ ? ]  anacron
  [ ? ]  console-screen.sh
  [ ? ]  cron
  [ ? ]  fetchmail
  [ ? ]  hostname
  [ ? ]  hwclock
  [ ? ]  hwclock-save
  [ ? ]  keymap.sh
  [ ? ]  killprocs
  [ ? ]  libpam-foreground
  [ ? ]  mailman
  [ ? ]  module-init-tools
  [ ? ]  modules_dep.sh
  [ ? ]  mysql
  [ ? ]  network-interface
  [ ? ]  network-interface-security
  [ ? ]  networking
  [ ? ]  nmbd
  [ ? ]  ondemand
  [ ? ]  plymouth
  [ ? ]  plymouth-log
  [ ? ]  plymouth-splash
  [ ? ]  plymouth-stop
  [ ? ]  portmap
  [ ? ]  portmap-boot
  [ ? ]  portmap-wait
  [ ? ]  procps
  [ ? ]  rc.local
  [ ? ]  saslauthd
  [ ? ]  screen-cleanup
  [ ? ]  sendsigs
  [ ? ]  smbd
  [ ? ]  stop-bootlogd
  [ ? ]  stop-bootlogd-single
  [ ? ]  udev
  [ ? ]  udev-finish
  [ ? ]  udevmonitor
  [ ? ]  udevtrigger
  [ ? ]  umountfs
  [ ? ]  umountnfs.sh
  [ ? ]  umountroot
  [ ? ]  usermin
  [ ? ]  vzquota
  [ ? ]  webmin

given the command line above I would have expected the output text to  
go into a file called servicesrunning.txt, not on screen. But the  
above output is the screen text.

There IS text in the new file servicesrunning.txt, like this:

dave at cl28810:~$ cat servicesrunning.txt
  [ + ]  apache2
  [ + ]  bind9
  [ - ]  bootlogd
  [ + ]  clamav-daemon
  [ + ]  clamav-freshclam
  [ - ]  dovecot
  [ - ]  klogd
  [ - ]  postfix
  [ + ]  postgresql-8.4
  [ + ]  proftpd
  [ + ]  quota
  [ - ]  quotarpc
  [ - ]  rsync
  [ - ]  sendmail
  [ + ]  spamassassin
  [ + ]  ssh
  [ + ]  sysklogd
  [ + ]  sysstat
  [ - ]  urandom
  [ - ]  wide-dhcpv6-client
  [ + ]  xinetd


So NOT the same text, less detail. Apparently only a summary goes into  
the text file.

Anyone know why this behaviour? Why on screen, why summary only on file?

Dave

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