listing of daemons running on a unix server

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

PLEASE REPLY TO SAMBA-TECHNICAL, THANKS

is there a way to obtain a list of daemons running?  is there a method for
starting / stopping them?

on slackware, for example, /etc/rc.d/pcmcia.d has "start|stop|restart"
which isn't particularly good.  on redhat there is a directory where every
script in it has "start|stop|restart".

what i really wanted was something under program control (c code),
although scripts would do.  and yet another smb.conf option listing where
a file is that contains the scripts.

why i am asking is because i have "service control manager" running on the
latest version of samba, and i wanted to start / stop / restart httpd,
imapd, syslogd etc etc.

luke