How to view active services via terminal e.g. status of AFP etc...

Hi : )

How do I view whether AFP is enabled or not via the terminal?

I thought I could view /etc/hostconfig to get the answer when logged in via e.g. SSH. But in Leopard running the following terminal command:

cat /etc/hostconfig | grep "=\-" | sort

Always shows AFPSERVER as NO whether or not file sharing is turned on or not.

At the top of this file, it says #this file is going away. So I'm guessing there is another / better way to view this.

Hunting around a bit, I found that if I:

netstat -a

and filesharing is running, there are two entries *.afpovertcp and *.afpovert in the output.

tcp4 0 0 *.afpovertcp . LISTEN
tcp6 0 0 *.afpovert . LISTEN

Turning off filesharing removes these from netstat.

Doing the above command takes a few seconds to get a result as it seems to poll a whole range of different services and protocols, which as I'm calling this from a script I don't have time for, so if I:

netstat -a -f inet6 | grep afp

I get a near instantaneous result of:
tcp6 0 0 *.afpovert . LISTEN

if filesharing is turned on and null if it is turned off.

Can anyone point me in a different direction? Is there another way? Or is this as good as any?

Thanks...