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init:network-interface (lo) pre-start proc (664) terminated with status 1

Ubuntu server 10.04. I modified the file /etc/network/interfaces. Restarted the system. system startup errors: init:network-interface (lo) pre-start proc (664) terminated with status 1. ...
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Start the GUI automatically in OpenBSD

I can't find the GUI to start up automatically in OpenBSD hppa 5.3. What commands must I use to get this working? I want to use Gnome like in OpenSuse which I am more comfortable with.
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Udev rules involving X11 don't run on startup

I have some udev rules written to run when I connect certain usb devices. For example, I change pointer velocity for certain mice, and change xmodmaps for particular keyboards. The scripts work well ...
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Other than /etc/rc.conf what other config files control system services at boot time?

I am still very new to FreeBSD, from what I have learned in manuals, /etc/rc.conf controls system services at boot time. There is no mention of sendmail and syslogd in /etc/rc.conf, so how come they ...
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Services in /etc/rc.local prevent the system from finishing to boot

I start some services such as Tomcat and MySQL from a shell script /etc/rc.local. There is a while loop to restart the services. This loop is continuously running and my system is not booting. How can ...
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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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Number of guake's columns at first use

I've a command in my .bashrc that shows me a file, and this file has lines with more than 80 columns, and when I open guake for the first time, these long lines are cut. Example: # .bashrc ...
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What should/shouldn't go in .zshenv, .zshrc, .zlogin, .zprofile, .zlogout?

The title says it all. I'm looking for guidelines on what one should and should not include in the various startup files for zsh. I understand the order of sourcing of these files, and the ...
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Modifying resolv.conf when when bringing network interface up on system startup

My Linux box currently has a network interface that allows me to connect to a network on a different subnet. I've achieved this by modifying the routing table when the network interface is brought up. ...
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Automate modprobe command at boot time on Fedora

My distribution is Fedora 17 Gnome. Every time I reboot/restart my computer I need to run this command as root: modprobe rt2800usb How can I make it permanent?
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Problem starting a service running Debian

I want to run a UPNP renderer as a service on a Raspberry Pi using Raspian, a Debian based distro. Actually, everything runs fine but one thing : I can't manage to start the service at boot time at ...
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How do I start a gui framebuffer (no X) application on startup instead of console login prompt?

I have a python application that uses pygame to access the framebuffer directly without using X. I want to start this application on startup instead of showing the console login prompt. I haven't ...
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Set global environment variables at boot in Solaris 11

I am wanting to create a file in Solaris, so that I can export a few "items" whenever the machine is started up. i.e. I want to export ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID and some other directories, of my ...
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xrandr config not loading properly at startup from .xprofile

I'm using xrandr to rescale the resolution on a netbook (Ubuntu 12.10). When I run the following command it works fine: xrandr --output LVDS1 --mode 1024x600 --panning 1280x720 --scale 1.25x1.2 ...
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Automatic Startup of Oracle 11gR2 on CentOS 6.3

I've setup a handful of CentOS 5.6 servers with Oracle 11gR2 and not run into this particular problem, but I have hit a wall with CentOS 6.3 and auto-starting Oracle. Not sure if this is related to ...
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Run XMonad's startup hook only on initial startup

I have the following startupHook in my xmonad.hs , startupHook = spawn "~/.xmonad/autostart" I am starting many apps and daemons in this script and it is written to run only once on startup. But ...
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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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Getting keyboard to work in debian 6.0 in order to unlock root partition

I just installed Debian 6.0, encrypted / and now I'm trying to boot. When GRUB comes up, I select Debian, it loads the initrd and asks for the root password, however I can't enter anything, because ...
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disabling x server on Fedora 17

How can I disable x server from starting up on Fedora 17? In older versions the user should edit /etc/inittab but in this version (I don't checked this on previous versions) Fedora uses some other ...
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Autorun Tomcat in Linux Mandriva - java.io.IOException: invalid argument

Here's the autorun script, which i use - #!/bin/sh # description: Tomcat start/stop script # chkconfig: TOMCAT_PATH=/java/apache-tomcat-7.0.32/bin ...
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What's the difference between /etc/rc.local and /etc/init.d/rc.local?

I want to add a permanent iptables rule to my new VPS, and after brief google search i was surprised that where is two places this rule can be added, that seems like identical: /etc/rc.local and ...
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Fedora doesn't start X on boot

Since a few months I have been facing a problem with Fedora 15. Whenever I start my system, the command prompt is displayed instead of the GUI login. I need to provide a username and password from the ...
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No /proc in a Busybox-based embedded Linux distribution

I am making an embedded Linux distribution and my board is a Raspberry Pi. My kernel version is 3.2.27 without initramfs and my root file system as follows: /lib /* contains ...
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run executable on boot

For the life of me, I cannot get this to work. I'm running Debian on Raspberry Pi. running this command from CLI: /home/pi/domotiga/DomotiGaServer.gambas -d runs my home automation server. How ...
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How to write a systemd script that runs usb_modeswitch and connects to the internet at startup?

I have a cisco AM10 wireless adapter and every boot, I need to run usb_modeswitch -v 1307 -p 1169 -L -I -u -l to get it to function as an adapter. Then I have to run a netcfg profile to connect to ...
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Create and control start up scripts in BusyBox

I have compiled a custom linux kernel in BusyBox. BusyBox init does not support runlevels. When the kernel boots up in BusyBox, it first executes init which looks for the specified runlevel in ...
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How to modprobe radeon and turn off card at start with systemd?

ArchLinux has completly replaced rc.conf with systemd. I used /etc/rc.local to modprobe radeon module and turn it off using vgaswitcheroo. modprobe radeon && echo OFF > ...
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How to start an application automatically on boot

I am new to Linux & looking forward to start application (which toggles a led every 10 sec). I have written the application program & it is working fine but now I want to start it ...
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Modify /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart before boot

I have some parameters that I would like to change in /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart, before it is run. I get the parameters from a grep command. I would like to feed them to the autostart file but ...
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What happens if I set default system runlevel to 0 or 6?

What I understand from runlevels is that in each level some programs have permission to be executed and some don't. runlevel 3 boots system into CLI and runlevel 5 starts the default GUI. But I don't ...
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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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Xubuntu 12.04: slow login

I'm running Xubuntu 12.04, and after I ran the update, my login started slowing down big time. I've dabbled a little bit with the programs in Settings -> Settings Manager -> Session and Startup, and ...
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Is there an easy way to create a FreeBSD rc script?

I have a FreeBSD jail in which I run a server using the command: /usr/sbin/daemon /path/to/script.py At the moment I have to run this command every time I restart the machine and the jail starts. ...
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Is there a way to view the console output instead of boot logo, while my RHEL 6.2 machine boots up?

My company provided laptop has RHEL6.2, with lot of programs to start up automatically, which makes the boot up process slow. While the machine boots up, there is the boring RHEL logo on the screen ...
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KDE Startup Applications over xrdp

I have Google Chrome installed on my machine. The new chrome runs in the background (for addons like google chat) and has an entry in the KDE startup apps. The trouble I am facing is that when I log ...
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Reducing ubuntu boot time using dmesg

The boot time is 141 seconds. Here's the most interesting parts of dmesg command: [ 2.870498] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd [ 80.669210] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: ...
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“Removing leftover files … Unknown user 'uuidd'. [FAIL]” on a fresh Arch Linux installation

I just fresh installed Arch Linux reecently and when booting i can spot a warning: Removing leftover files [BUSY] [/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/uuidd.conf:1] Unknown user 'uuidd'. [FAIL] What could this ...
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Linux mint 13: Error starting MATE

My Linux Mint installation seemed to work fine an hour ago, then I switched into Windows 7 which is installed on the same machine. When I restarted back into Mint, I got the following errors and can't ...
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Where can I see the processes running at startup?

I'm using backtrack5 R2 and sometimes when I log in the information showed says that There is 1 zombie process, where can I see what process is running?
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Automatically start named pipe reader on startup?

I'm trying to run a script with root access from PHP. I can't do that because Apache's user, www-data, don't have root access because of security reasons. To fix that, I was advised to use a named ...
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Upstart: How to run a “stop” before stopping other services?

I recently found out about the upstart "service starter" that Ubuntu is using and that is (apparently) the future to start/stop jobs in Linux. It's pretty new to me (I was used to the old SysV system ...
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ssh-agent not starting in OpenSuSE desktop

It seems that ssh-agent is not starting on my OpenSuSE system. When I run pgrep -fl ssh-agent, the result is blank. On my Linux Mint laptop, I get 1785 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/dbus-launch ...
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Should I run fsck on boot for an amazon ec2 image?

I have an Ubuntu micro instance running on amazon EC2. Recently after logging in I was alerted: *** /dev/xvda1 will be checked for errors at next reboot *** I've rebooted a couple times using init ...
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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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Combined su and screen at startup

I want to start a long running custom script at boot. The script must run under a specific username. So far I have successfully used the screen command and switched to the user in the custom script. ...
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Templates for startup script?

I need to write a couple of Linux (Debian) startup scripts. Are there any accurate templates available?
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Run gui application on startup

I can run a script at boot by adding the following line to my crontab: @reboot perl /path/script That works fine. But the problem arises when I try to run a gui application such as gmail notify. It ...
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How to make system startup to not wait on particular systemd service start

I have few virtual machines running under libvirt, and they are stared on the host system startup. This is controlled by libvirtd.service systemd configuration. This delays the availability of the ...
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Add item to inittab on OpenSuse 12.1

I am currently working on a project which needs to be added to inittab so that the program loads during startup. The program that I am trying to start is a c# mono application. I have created a ...
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How can I run a script that starts before my login screen?

I was calibrating my touch screen, and saw that the best tool around was xinput_calibrator. So I used it. It have two options (one of which did not work), so I am here for the second. It says I should ...

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