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How to automatically start and shut down VirtualBox machines?
I need to run a software system that is intended to be installed as an appliance on a dedicated machine. In order to save energy, I plan to run the system on a VirtualBox VM instead.
The host is a ...
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How do I hide/anonymise/defend a computer when on hostile networks?
I connect to a lot of open networks when I'm pootling around. I'm fairly careful to VPN home for anything important but that's not really my boggle. The laptop runs several services (nfs, dev http ...
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Writing basic systemd service files
I am developing a Nodejs application that the user interacts with via HTTP on localhost. There are practically no parameters and the daemon has virtually no dependencies and it just needs to be up by ...
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Starting a service during startup
I've created a service for an application, and I want this application to be started on boot. In the service manifest, I realize that there's a property for this (enabled="true"), but I've been ...
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What is wrong with this shell script?
The service for a piece of software I just installed (from a provided .deb file) on a Ubuntu server won't start. When running the service I get the error:
/etc/init.d/matrixsa: 44: Syntax error: "}" ...
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Best way to start .sh file on boot
I am running a stupid little minecraft server.
I want Lubuntu to execute the following script when the server boots up. NOT on login, and NOT on restart (unless it's starting up of course).
The ...
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Why is a service being started if it isn't mentioned in /etc/init.d?
After a clean install of Fedora 17 and distcc-server, I did a service distccd start, which completed successfully.
man service indicates that it would merely be running the distccd script at ...
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Which services should be disabled?
Following is the output of $chkconfig | grep 5:on on my laptop running Fedora 14.
NetworkManager 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
acpid 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on ...
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How to get notified when svcadm restarts a service that died
I'm using svcadm to keep my node.js server running on Illumos, is there a way to get notified if svcadm restarts the server because it crashed? Specifically if the process went down on its own and not ...
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Determine monthly internet transfer to detect right FUP
I live in a country where many ISP (internet service providers) have FUP (fair use policy, limit on amount of data transferred). I need to get a new connection and I would like to measure how much ...
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How to start the cron daemon
I am using RHEL 5.4
I killed the cron daemon accidentally. I wanted to stop a cron task, didn't know how to do it, ended up killing the cron daemon itself. How do I start it again?
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Apache won't start on Fedora 15
I can't get Apache to start on Fedora 15. I downloaded a project into /var/www/html and changed myself to the owner (recursively), though I don't think I changed any SELinux contexts or anything like ...
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Start network service at boot time on CentOS
I've recently reinstalled CentOS onto a computer of mine. I have OpenSSH Server on it now, as did I before I reinstalled the operating system.
Here's the difference: Before, SSH started without even ...
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linux launch script /etc/init with a specific user
I've created a script in /etc/init/mms-agent.conf :
start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [06]
exec /usr/bin/env python /home/mms/mms-agent/agent.py >> /home/mms/agent.log 2>&1
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rpc.statd running on system not using NFS
I have a Debian machine that gets warnings (via the Tiger automatic auditor) that rcp.statd is listening on such-and-such socket. Googling shows rpc.statd is a daemon used by NFS. As far as I know, ...
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What is the service that's responsible for automounting a USB drive in CentOS 6.4?
I know of the legacy Linux way of mounting a USB stick or drive: mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/
But in some CentOS 6.x installations I saw, you just insert the USB stick and CentOS automagically mounts it, ...
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systemd service that needs .ssh/id_dsa password
I have a systemctl service that starts a process smd-loop in a screen session. This process requires acces to remote SSH sources (for syncing purposes) and thus needs to be able to access my id_dsa ...
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How do systemd and chkconfig interact with respect to services and runlevels?
I recently updated some of our machines to Fedora 17. I have noticed that there are some services that I can configure their runlevels using chkconfig, while others don't appear there at all, and can ...
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How to manage fedora services and daemons using the GUI?
I am using Fedora 17, I need a GUI program to start/stop and enable/disable services and daemons.
I have installed "system-config-services" but it did not have enable/disable feature(run it with ...
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nmap shows me that one service is “open|filtered” while locally it's “open”, how to open?
I have a Quake 3 server. And it's launched successfully.
The problem is that no one can connect to that server.
I am running: nmap -sU -p 27960 hostname and it's showing me that it's state ...
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MySQL stop/waiting issues; “can't connect … through socket”
So this was my first time putting up a LAMP stack on a Bodhi machine (previously experience with WAMP, and LAMP on 10.04); I got Apache going, and a Drupal install begun, then I go to create a new ...
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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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How can I run a process in a terminal window and then hide that window?
I want to run python ~/program/proxy.py in a terminal when I boot up. And then hide this terminal window (because it is just a proxy program, and I don't want to see the debug info). So how can I get ...
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How to set proper monitoring of my services in a automated way? So that if one crash it auto on the fly restarts?
How can i setup monitoring to my system services?
Either using automated script which scan every moment, if httpd, mysqld, and my custom daemon is running or not, if not running it will automatically ...
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Bash script needed to run every second
I have a few cleanup commands to run for my datacaching scheme. I was thinking a bash script would be an easy way to check if the full clean up job needed to be run. But the cache is very time ...
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Run Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with Apache2 SSL with passphrase
I am setting up a Virtual Machine with Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Server.
I have been reading the section on setting up Apache with an SSL certificate within the book : "Beginning Ubuntu LTS Server ...
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How can I determine which service run during bootup is responsible for a certain behaviour?
On my Fedora 14 system, some strange bind mounts have appeared in the list of mounts. They appear on every bootup. I can unmount them with umount -l, but I would like to find which package is mounting ...
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Using nohup at /etc/init.d/service
I have been trying to create a daemon using /etc/init.d/myservice and it will call a shell script that contains nohup within the script line.
Will it affect it if I could do service stop later?
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/etc/rc.d/postgres start vs rc.d postgres start
What's the difference between those two commands?
/etc/rc.d/postgres start
and
rc.d postgres start
Aren't those interchangeable?
I tried starting PostgreSQL using the latter, but it only works ...
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How to make a program/process a service ?
I wonder how can I make a regular application like for instance noip2 updater a system process. I use Debian 6.0.2. For now I have it like this :
the binary is in the /usr/local/bin/ as noip2 file
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/etc/rc*: Why does this command stop NFS services from starting at boot?
I recently found this home networking tutorial surprisingly enlightening. However, there is one thing I don't understand:
Disabling NFS Start On Boot: If you are not planning on regularly
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Changing service startup order
I use wpa_supplicant to configure the wireless connection. Now I have a problem in that the network service starts before wpa_supplicant so this happens:
Bringing up interface wlan0:
Determining IP ...
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Configure & Compile syslog-ng from source, got: Threads are not supported on this platform
I have configure, gmake, and gmake installed syslog-ng-3.4.0alpha1 with eventlog-0.2.12 and other dependencies.
From then output of the ./configure --prefix=/syslog --with-gnu-ld, I can see that the ...
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Run a command before services are started
I have a Oracle Linux 6.3 system on which I would like to run a command when the machines starts up before any other services are started. The reason for this is to try and work around a bug in RHEL ...
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No communication services enabled following startup
I recently installed Parsix (Debian) on my system, and I've been struggling to figure out how to autostart my services. Of the list of services that don't run and should run are:
ssh
apache
mysql
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Bumblebee (Optimus) Service Won't Start w/ 3.4 Kernel on Fedora 16
I'm using an ASUS laptop (MUXless graphics) w/ a GT 630M (re-branded 540M) GPU and only Fedora 16 installed. I installed bumblebee and the NVIDIAdrivers using the instructions described here: ...
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PPPoE connection problem
I have just installed Backtrack 5 R2 and I'm finding it difficult to make a DSL internet connection. What troubles me is that I think I have all the steps figured out, and after completing them, the ...
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Custom application running on embedded device - do I need to register my listening port in /etc/services?
I have written an application that will run on an embedded device. The installation is very minimal and uses busybox and not many other things. Part of the software includes a listener thread that ...
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How to disable inetd and sendmail under OpenBSD 5.1?
# grep '^inetd_flags="' /etc/rc.conf
inetd_flags="NO" # for normal use: ""
# grep -i 'sendmail_flags="NO"' /etc/rc.conf
sendmail_flags="NO"
#
after a reboot..:
two questions:
# ps ...
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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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What starts the login prompt in RHEL?
I don't have a service in my run level that starts the login prompt, so I was wondering what does.
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What is rsh.rlogin and How to remove rsh.rlogin
I never heard of this word rsh and also received a check list from Security pro that we have to disable rsh.
Can someone please tell me what is this rsh and how to disable it.
Base OS : RHEL 5.5 and ...
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How to run regular programs as daemons/services [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I close a terminal without killing the command running in it?
I'm using Debian for my Server.
I just installed MediaCore, which works well.
Now I want to have ...
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MySQL server on Ubuntu fails to start after changes made to my.cnf in Windows
I have MySQL 5.5 running on Ubuntu Server 12.10. When I run /etc/init.d/mysql restart, I get the following:
mysql start/running, process 2754
However, when I open /etc/mysql/my.cnf in Windows via a ...
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Every time I restart my computer I need to restart Bluetooth service, how can I fix this?
Every time I turn on, restart or wake up my notebook or I have to restart my Bluetooth service in order for me to use it. But once I restart the service everything is fine. How can I delay the start ...
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Start a service on HPUX at boot
I'm trying to start a service on HPUX 11.31 at boot time. I generated the appropriate symlinks, but the system is not starting it up. If I run the script once the system is up, everything works as ...
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start-stop-daemon makes cron pidfile with wrong pid
I have an init.d script to start crond which specifies the following for start():
start-stop-daemon -S --quiet --make-pidfile --pidfile /var/run/crond.pid --background --exec /usr/sbin/crond
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Run service after logging in on an X session
I am using Ubuntu 12.04. I want to automatically start a service after login with LightDM. This service is not meant to start on boot, but after X is initialized.
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For an init.d startup script, what is the ideal user to use as the owner of that process
Everyone says that running processes as root is bad, since it defeats the security and privileges model. But what user should be used to run a startup process? Is it really necessary to create a new ...
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list Windows shared folders (samba) available in the local network? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to get list of computers similar to what is shown under “Network” in Windows
I suspect the services shared by Windows (including shared folders) can ...
