How do I find where a service is starting?

[Dru Lee Parsec]

If I look at /etc/services I see webcache running on port 8080. I need to get rid of that process. But I can't find a PID on webcache.

More importantly, I can't find where it's being started so I can stop it there when I reboot.

How would I go about finding where this webcache service is starting?

[pipe]

check /etc/init.d

In Debian you would remove the service with:

update-rc.d -f <service> remove

(substitute <service> for the script name in /etc/init.d )

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[Dru Lee Parsec]

Nope, it doesn't look like it's there. I even did a grep 8080 * inthat directory and couldn't find anything that refered to a port 8080 (which is where webcache is running).

I could do a brute force grep -r 8080 / but that will take all night.

[osnap]

Try a "cat * | grep 8080" in that directory instead.

If you just do a "grep 8080 *" then it won't search through each file, it will just look for a file with 8080 in the name.