Wildman <best_lay at yahoo.com>: > Thanks but I knew about systemctl. As I already said my goal is to do > it without the use of an external program. Inspect: <URL: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/src/systemctl/systemctl.c> In particular: get_state_one_unit() Then, proceed to: <URL: https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-python/doc/tutorial.html> Marko