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Distro agnostic init script dependencies
I'm trying to write an init script which will be able to handle basic dependencies (for example, It has to be started (just) before MySQL service starts). Is there a distro agnostic way to write such ...
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Displaying all sysvinit init scripts
Is there some tool that displays all available init scripts (on Debian), short of one having to remember a location like /etc/init.d, not to mention that not everything in there is an init script?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. ...
