The scripts to be executed at boot, usually for starting deamons and mounting file systems.
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What are the chkconfig directives (classic style) into init.d scripts?
To ask my question, I must first clarify the context.
Every init script in /etc/init.d (on RedHat and Centos distros) is prepared to be managed with the chkconfig command-line tool utility.
This ...
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“provide net” in gentoo init script doesn't work as I thought
I'm running into a strange (to me) problem.
I'm running a gentoo with two net interfaces: enp5s0 (wired interface) and wlan0 (wifi). When I try to run a program, for example openvpn, from its script ...
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Mezzanine start up script
I am having a world of pain writing a simple start up script for Mezzanine. Running python manager.py runserver just refuses to demonize using start-stop-daemon. Does anyone know of a such a simple ...
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Auto-restart an process when it crashes
I have an app that I need to autostart when the OS starts. I am running in a CentOS 6, so I am using a LSB init script placed in /etc/init.d. So far this is fine and working.
Now....besides that, ...
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How can I run a shell script as a daemon under Redhat?
I've got a shell script, which is essentially a one liner with some logging, which I'm trying to run this from an init script. I'm using the daemon function inside of /etc/init.d/functions to run it, ...
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davmail systemd launcher on headless server
I'm trying to follow the ArchWiki guide for writing a custom service file to launch DavMail as a system-wide daemon. Previously I had a line in my ~/.xinitrc that read
nohup /usr/bin/davmail ...
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Mount /etc from disc into squashfs
I've created a gentoo-live system which should be booted from a CF-card. The whole file-system is in a squashfs. I've created a custom initrd which first mounts the CF-card and from there the squashed ...
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init.d script causes boot hang
I successfully installed a script to automatically launch in /etc/init.d on my new Raspberry Pi.
Unfortunately, it is a node.js app that never returns, and therefore hangs the device during boot ...
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Converting update-rc.d redis_6379 defaults to chkconfig command
I'm trying to run the commmand below to Centos and of course I get command not found. How do I then convert it to chkconfig ?
update-rc.d redis_6379 defaults
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How can I make this daemon/init run as a non root user?
I have an init script to kick off a daemon. The problem is it runs as root. I would like it to run as a user called "deploy". Ubuntu 12.04
#! /bin/sh
# File: /etc/init.d/unicorn
### BEGIN INIT ...
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/etc/init.d/script, or /etc/inittab - respawn on die
I have a daemon/service (milter-regex), that is dying. I'm only using it temporarily (A few months), so don't care too much, but I want it to restart when it dies.
It is an init.d script. 'service ...
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How to correctly remove mountnfs from /etc/init.d/
Cleaning up the boot process of a Debian squeeze installation running on kernel 3.2.0-0.bpo.3-amd64, I spotted several mountnfs scripts in /etc/init.d/:
# ls /etc/init.d/ | grep mountnfs
...
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Jboss application startup and shutdown asks for password. Howto automate with init script?
Jboss application startup and shutdown of BMC-IDM asks for password (called keystore password, some Java stuff).
Howto automate with init script?
Stop application
> stop_idm_suite.sh
Suite ...
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Naming process in init scripts
I'm trying to write an init script that will start a service that needs to have started postgresql server before. Bellow is the postgresql's init header:
#!/bin/sh
#
# postgresql This is the init ...
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inittab '-' character in process field
I have a an inittab file with the following entry:
console::askfirst:-/bin/ash
According to this Man page a '+' character in the process field means
init will not do utmp and wtmp accounting ...
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Why does Redhat's daemon function not have a group setting?
Background:
I'm a Ubuntu/Debian fan and most of my development experience has been on that platform but my current employer uses Redhat. I needed to write a simple init.d script and want the ...
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How to write startup script for systemd
I have 2 graphics cards on my laptop, one is IGP and another discrete, I've written a shell script to to turn off discrete graphics card.
How I can convert it to systemd script, to runt at start-up?
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Can readahead-services be safely disabled?
I am just going through the service-list of a server (CentOS 5) - the question will probably apply to other RedHat, Fedora, ... versions, too.
Note that my servers normally run in runlevel 3 (no GUI ...
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How do I determine whether my services are using runit or init?
How do I determine whether my services are using runit or init? I use Ubuntu 10.0.4.
Such as nginx, chef, puppet, etc.
Thanks.
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How to make unix service see environment variables?
I have set my environment variable using /etc/profile:
export VAR=/home/userhome
Then if I do echo $VAR it shows /home/userhome
But when I put reference to this variable into the ...
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Is it good practice to create a background job within an init script if the process can not daemonize itself?
I am fairly new to *nix, and have come across the need to drop multiple processes, that should be run 100% of the time. to background using &.
I use the following line in an init.d script to do ...
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How to write init.d script log messages to disk?
I'm running Debian wheezy. Many scripts in /etc/init.d/ use various logging functions defined in the Linux Standard Base, like log_success_msg and log_warning_msg. The LSB documentation seems a bit ...
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Aliases for 'sudo /etc/init.d/'
Are there any standards for aliasing sudo /etc/init.d/? I'm sure many people have considered cutting down these 17 characters to just 2 or so.
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Why is bash used in boot scripts?
Why programs run at boot/shutdown are written in bash script?
If a compiled language (or a faster interpreted language, like Python) was used, then its running time would be shorter.
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Difference between /etc/init.d/networking restart and invoke-rc.d networking restart
Is there any real difference between /etc/init.d/networking restart and invoke-rc.d networking restart (Debian)?
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Running script before shutdown seemingly not working
I created a small script backup_files.sh and placed it in /etc/init.d:
#/bin/sh
logfile=/media/verbatim/log
date >> $logfile
rsync -av /home/philipp/Documents /media/verbatim/ >> $logfile
...
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VMWare daemon doesn't startup when system starts
I have installed VMware Player on my Debian squueze, but after the reboot the vmware daemon(/etc/init.d/vmware) does not start up automatically, i have tried without any success to set the daemon ...
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Bash Script Detects Key Down At Boot
I want to customize my run level scripts based upon a key combo pressed at boot.
How to I test for key presses as early as possible from boot? Do I need to do something special, like for example: ...
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add command to /etc/init.d/rc.local file that's missing
Want to add the command
sudo mount -t vboxsf H_DRIVE /media/windows7share
to /etc/init.d/rc.local file, to run the command every time when system starts up but I don't have such a file (rc.local) ...
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Changing user in a script?
I am trying to change user in order to execute a specific command during startup. It fails silently and apparently the userchange isn't carried out as I can tell that the command isn't executed.
What ...
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Gentoo on VM setting IP Manually
I installed Gentoo on Virtualbox with the minimal image. This is the first time I am running gentoo. I need to do
ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.10
route add default gw 192.168.0.1
everytime it boots on ...
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Need help to create a Unix shell startup script [closed]
Is there a way to create a Unix shell script (on HP-UX) that will start on server at boot time only, and will execute the following commands in order:
# cd /mysql
# ./bin/safe_mysqld --user=root ...
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What's the difference between /etc/rc.d/rc*.d and /etc/rc*.d
I know that rc*.d directories are used at startup, or reboot, or so on time, for starting or stopping programs. Can anybody explain me what's the difference between the rc*.d folders placed under the ...
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Prevent init daemon echoing on TTY
Below is an init script which starts/stops a daemon. The daemon is unfortunately printing the parsed packet data (from /home/nuthan/program/server), a socket server written in perl, listening to a ...
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What's the connection between “/etc/init.d” and “/etc/rcX.d” directories in Linux?
I am learning command line from a book called "Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Bible, Second Edition." The book states this:
Some Linux implementations contain a table of processes to start
...
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How to make “notify-send” work from daemon application [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can I launch a graphical program on another user's desktop as root?
I wrote a script which starts from init.d .When it finishes I need it to notify-send a message to ...
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Why does initramfs mount the root filesystem read-only
What is the reason for the root filesystem being mounted ro in the initramfs (and in initrd).
For example the Gentoo initramfs guide mounts the root filesystem with:
mount -o ro /dev/sda1 /mnt/root
...
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Can a service script put inside init.d be called at startup and shutdown?
I'm running Red Hat 5.1. I have a script called sysinit that I added as a service using chkconfig --add sysinit. I have the following set in the file:
#chkconfig 4 01 01
This creates one symlink ...
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How to create an unprivileged user in CentOS?
I want to create an unprivileged user to run my RhodeCode server and Celery daemon on a CentOS instance. I think the accepted definition of this is no home directory, login disabled, and no shell ...
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Init Script initializing daemonized process, but won't return [ok]
I'm new to init scripts, but the one I'm using I've copied almost verbatim (I did have to change a few things around from the source I found to work with Fedora). The daemon initializes fastcgi just ...
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How to run a program on boot up?
So I have this program which I manually run as root :
sudo gammu-smsd -c /etc/gammu-smsdrc -d
What this does is it runs the Gammu (software to manage gsm modems) and 'daemonize' it. My problem is ...
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Detecting monitor on boot time?
I am using my laptop in several monitor configurations that do require xorg.conf (say, I am driving a T221 from my laptop) and it's very inconvenient to manually switch them. Is there something in ...
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How can I make a script in /etc/init.d start at boot?
I think I read something a while back about this, but I can't remember how it's done. Essentially, I have a service in /etc/init.d which I'd like to start automatically at boot time. I remember it ...
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SysV init run levels
On a system that uses SysV init run levels such as Centos 5, when the OS is booting, does it go straight to the run level defined in /etc/inittab?
If I change my run level using the init command do ...
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In Debian 6, how to start a daemon as a different user?
I'm trying to start the Tor daemon as another user. When it installs, Tor automatically creates a new user "debian-tor", however, it does not run as this user, but rather as root.
In Debain 5 I ...
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Missing init.d/apache2 file
I am new to linux and just recently messed up my first apache/tomcat configuration. After trying to delete apache and tomcat, and now trying to reinstall apache 2, I am missing the init.d/apache2 file ...
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how can 'init' and 'service' command can cross normal-user life?
i'm just moved to linux world in ubuntu 10.10. i'm using it for normal life, internet and social networks, multimedia enterainement like musics and movie, a bit of coding with c and python..
i've ...
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No such file or directory /etc/init.d/functions
I created a startup script to start/restart/stop a group of applications. I used the lib /etc/init.d/functions in my script. It is working well on my system, but it not working for my client; he is ...
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Are certain parts of startup scripts necessary or just good practice?
I'm currently exploring creating a startup script in the form of a system process located in the /etc/init.d/ on my Fedora 14 Linux installation. It sounds like the following two lines are bare ...
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Is there a standard way to configure what policy iptables loads on startup under Debian?
I've just started playing with Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) in a VPS environment, as a way to learn more about system administration.
One thing I'd like to configure is a default packet filtering policy. ...
