I'm writing a script that will need to run across FreeBSD, Debian, Gentoo and probably other machines, and will need to tell me, among other things, which daemons would launch at startup if the machine were rebooted. So I wonder
1) what the best Debian command is to figure this out in a
scriptable way (which is to say, I know that rcconf will
tell me this);
2) if there's any general, portable way to do this across
Unices; and most generally
3) if anyone can point me to a website that lists
side-by-side comparisons of which commands handle
identical tasks across Unices.
For that matter,
4) Other than testing for the existence of
/etc/[distro name]{_,-}version, is there any way --
without assuming that the distro is LSB-compliant -- to
figure out which distro is in front of me?
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