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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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How can I make Debian run m python script at startup?
I have this script in my home folder (pi): server.py.
How could I make Debian run this script at startup so I dont need to log in and to i manually?
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How do I configure which ethernet connections are active on boot?
I have an unmanaged dedicated server that I administer, running CentOS. Recently when I reboot the server, I am unable to use SSH. Both times this has happened the server host has determined the issue ...
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Running script once when X is initialized
Where should I put a bash script if I want it to be executed once during X startup as part of system bootup. For example, I want to start up VPN on my machine as root user once X starts up.
When X ...
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Execute a script as root at boot on Fedora 15/16
I try to run a script (tpfand) at startup, and it asked to be root to execute it.
This is a script to control the fans on Thinkpad computers.
Despite several attempts, I could not get ...
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How can I debug Apache, not starting upon boot
Apache is already set up as a service, since:
$ sudo update-rc.d apache2 defaults
System start/stop links for /etc/init.d/apache2 already exist.
But Apache isn't starting. How can I start ...
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Run a sh file on machine boot up
I am quite new to linux and want to know what to be done to launch a .sh file on machine startup
basically i have a server machine with linux OS on it and want to run some jboss application when ...
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List of script( location)s that get run automatically, and when?
Does anybody know (of a resource listing) what scripts are run automatically, and when, from the moment I startup the computer until it's shutdown again.
I know several places where I can add scripts ...
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Fedora session / process startup issues
I've installed fedora 16 with lxde(xfce) desktop. My problem is that when I login into the system, it gives me redundant app startup, for instance it launches Installation manager, also I've noticed ...
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How to auto-start a service (apache2) with Linux Mint
(Strangley) My installed Apache2 does not start up when logging in to Linux Mint.
Running this command gets it going:
sudo service apache2 start
How should I attempt to start up this service upon ...
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ACPI conflicts with ACPI region SMRG
During startup, I noticed some error. I found this in dmesg:
i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.3: PCI INT B -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
ACPI: I/O resource 0000:00:1f.3 [0x400-0x41f] conflicts with ...
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Make daemon start up with Linux
I'm writing a simple daemon application using C/C++ and I want it to start when Linux starts up.
I am a beginner on Linux systems.
I have tried to modify /etc/init.d/skeleton to add a script into ...
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Giving a custom script root permissions
I have a backup drive that is Truecrypt Encrypted. I'd like to automnt this drive so I can automate backups when in the office. I am using Linux Mint 12 x64bit
I wrote a script that runs successfully ...
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Problematic booting process
About a month ago I installed Lubuntu 11.10. Since that time there is a problem with booting and shutting down.
Booting is endless. This screen never disappears, so I have to manually press the ...
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Fixing a broken X initialization
Here are the symptoms:
On reboot of my Fedora 14 system, I get to the Fedora loading screen progress bar. The system seems to progress normally, then the nvidia logo flashes, a wait cursor shows, ...
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How to start VNC server on start-up in Ubuntu 10.04
I've been struggling with this long enough to ask yet another startup script question.
I've got a startup script that is relatively simple, ie:
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: startVNC
# ...
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Problem at boot-time: “Loading user-defined modules [FAIL]”
After I updated my Kernel to version 3.0, i always get this line when my Arch-Linux system is booting up:
Loading User-specified Modules [BUSY] [FAIL]
I have no idea what could cause this to ...
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Ubuntu 11.04 Startup Applicatation vs /etc/init.d
Is there any difference between these two methods for application to start on boot? I need an application to start before a logon occurs and am questioning whether or not Ubuntu's Startup Application ...
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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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Start up ssh connection on startup
I need to start a ssh connection to a proxy in order to have access to some resources.
I have written the shell script and managed to run the script successfully.
However, I found it very ...
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Having a bash script run at startup and display the results when I log in
I am running Ubuntu 11.04 and I want to be able to run a command like top so when I login it is running in a window.
I been trying many things for a while now and can't seem to get it to work
I ...
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Solaris - get a list of the commands run at startup/boot?
Is there any way of seeing a list of commands that were run at startup/boot on Solaris?
I know there is a network drive being mounted at startup but I wanted to see the exact 'mount ...' command ...
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start mysql server at boot for debian
I am using Debian Etch and I have following this and tried to write a script like this to auto start mysql server at boot:
#! /bin/sh
# /etc/init.d/blah
#
# Some things that run always
sudo ...
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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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What's the cleanest way to schedule autoexec.bat like command in Linux?
I want to create a small script for my Linux system that would do some simple things on PC boot. The script is most likely going to be Python, but maybe I'll resort to C or shell.
The problem is that ...
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How to disable graphical shell?
I have a Linux system (Ubuntu) running in a VM, but now I want to disable the graphical shell. Where in the startup process are the graphical components launched? Is it some run-level dependent ...
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How to permanently remove obsolete icon from Ubuntu Xfce notification tray?
Since I uninstalled blueman, the obsolete icon persists in my Xfce (Ubuntu 11.04 64 bit) notification tray with a placeholder. There is a way to hide but not to remove it. Can you show me how to ...
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rc.local - not all commands are executed
I have following lines in my rc.local
#!/bin/sh -e
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# ...
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Is there a standard way to have a program start when a user logs in on Linux?
Is there a standard way to make a program start when a user logs in?
On Ubuntu, for example, you can place a .desktop file in ~/.config/autostart and the application will launch on startup.
Does ...
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How do I start Xvfb on startup on Debian?
I’ve got a Debian web server that I’m using for occasional screen-scraping via Selenum and Python.
I use Xvfb as a virtual X server for Firefox to run on when being controlled by Selenium. Given that ...
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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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removing startup item from com.apple.launchd
Im not sure if this is the right place for this kind of question, but here it goes anyways...
I installed a program a few months ago, it had a startup option that I did install. Later, I decided to ...
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Run Python script on startup
Running on Ubuntu Karmic. I need to execute the following (updated) script at boot time
#!/bin/sh
# /etc/init.d/scripts
# Description: Starts Python scripts
# ————————————————–
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
...
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Why won't my xmodmap command run on startup/login?
I want to run this command every time I log in (or every time I start up, if that doesn't work): xmodmap -e 'keysym Delete = Menu' -e 'keysym Menu = Delete'
I've tried many things. I put the command ...
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Stop program running at startup in Linux
How do I stop a program running at startup in Linux. I want to remove some apps from startup to allow them to be managed by supervisord e.g apache2
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On Linux, is there an rc.local equivalent for shutdown?
I've got a few commands that I run in rc.local so they are run last in the startup sequence. I would like to know if there is a similar facility for undoing the results of those commands at shutdown, ...
