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+[#]: subject: "How to Check if Your Linux System Uses systemd"
+[#]: via: "https://itsfoss.com/check-if-systemd/"
+[#]: author: "Sagar Sharma https://itsfoss.com/author/sagar/"
+[#]: collector: "lujun9972/lctt-scripts-1700446145"
+[#]: translator: " "
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+How to Check if Your Linux System Uses systemd
+======
+
+Every mainstream Linux distro including Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, and Arch uses systemd by default.
+
+But there are [many non-systemd distros][1] like Void Linux that uses lightweight runit for better performance or Devuan that uses sysvinit on principal basis.
+
+The problem comes when you are trying to follow some tutorial or documentation and it has commands specific to systemd or some other init service.
+
+And this is where you have to check if your Linux system uses systemd or something else.
+
+One way would to be check the process with PID 1 (after all, an init system is the first process to run on a Linux system).
+
+```
+
+    ps 1
+
+```
+
+But its output could be misleading as often it shows `/sbin/init` which is just a soft link to actual init process.
+
+If you [follow that symbolic link][2], you can get the init system information. There are two ways of doing that:
+
+  * Using the stat command
+  * Using the readlink command
+
+
+
+So let's start with the first one.
+
+📋
+
+These methods were tested with 6 init systems: Systemd, OpenRC, SysVnint, Busybox, runit, and s6.
+
+### Method 1: Check if systemd is in use with the stat command
+
+Here's how you can use the stat command to find out what init system you are using:
+
+```
+
+    stat /sbin/init
+
+```
+
+If you are using a systemd-powered distro, then it will show you the following output:
+
+![][3]
+
+But if you are using anything else than systemd, it will show the init name unless you are using SysVnit which will only show you `init` instead of `sysvnit`:
+
+![SysVnit only displays "init" instead of sysvnit][4]
+
+### Method 2: Check the init system using the readlink command
+
+Unlike the previous method, when you use the readlink command, it will only print the name of the init system.
+
+So if you want to know if you are using Systemd or not, simply use the following command:
+
+```
+
+    readlink /sbin/init
+
+```
+
+![][5]
+
+If you are using the [OpenRC init service][6], then it will show the following output:
+
+![][7]
+
+But if you are using SysVnit, then, it will show you the following output:
+
+![][8]
+
+### Tiny 'script' I wrote for you
+
+Another way is to check if the `/run/systemd/system` directory exists or not.
+
+Well, the easiest way to find out is to [use an if-else bash command][9] in your terminal which will check if you are running a systemd-powered distro or not:
+
+```
+
+    if [ -d /run/systemd/system ]; then echo "System is running systemd"; else echo "System is not running systemd"; fi
+
+```
+
+![][10]
+
+### More on systemd
+
+Once you know you are using the systemd-powered distro, here's how you can [manage services using the systemctl command][11]:
+
+![][12]
+
+Want to [create a systemd service][13] from scratch? You can do that too:
+
+![][12]
+
+I hope you will find this guide helpful.
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+via: https://itsfoss.com/check-if-systemd/
+
+作者：[Sagar Sharma][a]
+选题：[lujun9972][b]
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+
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+
+[a]: https://itsfoss.com/author/sagar/
+[b]: https://github.com/lujun9972
+[1]: https://itsfoss.com/systemd-free-distros/
+[2]: https://linuxhandbook.com/follow-symbolic-link/
+[3]: https://itsfoss.com/content/images/2023/12/Use-the-stat-command-to-find-if-you-are-using-systemd-or-not.png
+[4]: https://itsfoss.com/content/images/2023/12/Check-if-you-are-using-SysVnit-in-Linux-or-not.png
+[5]: https://itsfoss.com/content/images/2023/12/Use-the-readlink-command-to-find-if-you-are-using-systemd-or-not-something-else.png
+[6]: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC/openrc-init
+[7]: https://itsfoss.com/content/images/2023/12/find-if-you-are-using-openrc-as-init-system.png
+[8]: https://itsfoss.com/content/images/2023/12/How-to-find-out-if-you-are-using-SysVnit-as-init-system-in-Linux.png
+[9]: https://itsfoss.com/bash-if-else/
+[10]: https://itsfoss.com/content/images/2023/12/A-simple-if-else-statement-to-know-if-you-are-using-systemd-distro-or-not.png
+[11]: https://linuxhandbook.com/systemctl-commands/
+[12]: https://linuxhandbook.com/content/images/size/w256h256/2021/08/Linux-Handbook-New-Logo.png
+[13]: https://linuxhandbook.com/create-systemd-services/