listing of daemons running on a unix server

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

so, the basic impression is that all systems are different.  would forcing
people to reference a list of scripts that have "start|stop|restart" and
optionally "status" be acceptable, taking the cue from redhat?

daemon list file = /usr/local/samba/daemons:
http	/etc/rc.d/rc.init/rc.httpd
....	...

yes, it would be a pain: i'd have to modify my slackware start-up by
obtaining some scripts from somewhere which accepted "start|stop|restart".