Questions tagged [upstart]
Questions specific to the "upstart" init system. Do not use for general init issues.
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What is wrong with my upstart job file?
I wrote a little script for upstart and included a log function in the executable file, but there is no log output. When starting the program manually, it works fine.
Here is the .conf file located in ...
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Ubuntu “service” command stuck, can't reload services
Using Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS, it is not possible to call the service command to modify the status of any /etc/init/ services.
The command starts but is stuck in execution.
The services themselves are ...
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How to change init system
I met a ubuntu 16.04 environment, when execute /sbin/initctl version echo upstart(version xxx).This caused me to fail to modify the port through /etc/init.d/ssh restart, because the script judged that ...
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What's causing initctl stop to fail?
I have an upstart process which terminates all child processes during post-stop:
post-stop exec killall my-process & exec sleep 10
This works as expected, however I'm unsure of the following two ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 startup questions regarding runlevels and *.wants directories
Is Ubuntu 18.04 using Upstart or systemd?
I know with the directories named Rc0.d Rc1.d Rc2.d ......Rc6.d. we can control runlevels in Ubuntu 18.04. But what is the difference between what they do, ...
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How to set up OpenVPN and Transmission to start at boot on CentOS 6?
I'm trying to set up Transmission with OpenVPN on a headless server running a minimal install of CentOS 6.10, and ideally these would start when I boot the system.
I'm able to get everything to run ...
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Linux Centos 7 Convert upstart script into systemd service
I have the upstart script below, how can I translate it into a systemd service ?
description "x11vnc"
start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [^2345]
#console log
respawn
respawn limit 20 5
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keep upstart job running?
When i run below UpStart job, UpStart job automatically stop when script ends. Is there any way to keep it running until i run initctl stop testjob. Like we use RemainAfterExit=yes in Systemd and it ...
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Upstart Logrotate?
What's wrong with my config? I had to --force the logrotate a couple times to see changes, but the numbering is all wonky.
----@----------:/var/log/upstart# ls -Anh
total 4.0G
-rw-r----- ...
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Create and Manage Upstart Services without Root Access
Is there anything like ~/.config/systemd/user/ and systemctl --user start ... for Upstart?
initctl --user ... required UPSTART_SESSION environment variable, looks like --user here has different ...
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Upstart script with expect scripting
Please give me advices about expect scripting combined with an upstart script.
There are 3 scripts that I am dealing with right now.
Script A) Java program
PATH: /opt/~~/manager
Script B) ...
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How can I install upstart on debian 9? [duplicate]
To demonize an app, I used to use upstart. I know it is discarded from debian packages, but I still need it as I can not make my app run using systemd.
Currently, when I try to install it I get:
# ...
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Package 'upstart' has no installation candidate
When I try to install upstart on Debian 9, I get :
# apt-get install upstart
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package upstart is not ...
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linux mint "initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused [duplicate]
Getting error message at logon "session only lasted less than 10 seconds....", which apparently can be caused by multiple issues. My error is happening during the graphical logon.
I can login to the ...
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I don't have upstart installed on 16.04 but /etc/init has a bunch of .conf scripts in it. Why?
I'm trying to get a command to run on boot and wrote an upstart .conf file and put it into /etc/init. It's a brand new EC2 instance and theres was already bunch of .conf files there. My file wasn't ...
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initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart
I recently upgraded my server from Ubuntu V14.04 to V16.04 and now systemctl doesn't seem to work anymore.
I need to prevent transmission-daemon from starting automatically on boot so I issue the ...
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How do i configure an Upstart script to run prior to allowing user login?
As part of a system-provisioning process for Ubuntu 14.04, I would like to prevent user logins until my script has completed. I have an upstart job with the following contents:
start on (local-...
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Finding which packages control network interfaces?
I have a debian package that I'm running on startup.
I'm using upstart and I think I need to add a dependency to the upstart config:
start on someProgram
I'm not sure which program, but I'm not ...
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Bash / upstart - launch command under another user, replacing current process
I'm starting a process foobar as an upstart service which should be run under user joe. For this I'm using su -c:
script
su -c "foobar" joe
end script
However the su process is still lying ...
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Init running in Debian 9.1
I have the /usr/lib/systemd and /etc/systemd directories, and systemd is running.
But I also have the /etc/init/ directory, with several .conf configuration files, I thought this was a sign of ...
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Upstart service killed by TERM signal, how to track that
I have upstart script as
description "My API API"
author "me@localhost"
env MY_API_PYTHON_HOME=/opt/services
start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [!2345]
script
mkfifo /tmp/my-api-log-fifo
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Upstart fills up with gigabytes of “QGLContext::makeCurrent(): Cannot make invalid context current”
I use XFCE on Linux Mint 18.2.
Apparently, my /sbin/upstart --user process is filling my~/.cache/upstart/startxfce4.log with gobs and gobs of:
QGLContext::makeCurrent(): Cannot make invalid context ...
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Why is upstart a childprocess of systemd?
🌐 pstree -h
systemd─┬─ModemManager─┬─{gdbus}
│ └─{gmain}
├─NetworkManager─┬─dhclient
│ ├─dnsmasq
│ ├─{gdbus}
│ ...
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How can I have systemd execute a script only if a service was stopped via systemctl, but not execute if it crashed by itself?
What I am looking for, is the equivalent of the pre-stop stanza in upstart, for systemd
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Deploying an upstart project on a systemd machine with Capistrano
I am trying to configure a deployment for a Ubuntu 14.0.4 app on a RHEL 7 machine and the upstart-systemd difference is causing a lot of issues (foreman scripts ...).
Does anyone have experience on ...
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Systemd to upstart
I got a systemd service and I am still using Ubuntu 14.04 for various reasons. As you probably know ubuntu uses upstart and not systemd. Can you guys help me convert this systemd service to an upstart ...
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How do I import Amazon EC2 instance/user data into the environments of the services on my machine?
I am using Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.10; so my init system can be either upstart or systemd.
Things like How to set an environment variable in Amazon EC2 over on Stack Overflow show how one fetches an ...
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Prevent starting processes automatically
How can I prevent starting processes automatically.
(e.g. I used mysql database about a year ago). I killed
the mysqld processs and now I see it's running again.
And many other processes I don't know ...
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Upstart Zookeeper script hangs and does not start
I've been writing a Zookeeper upstart service script as follows:
description "ZooKeeper"
limit nofile 32768 32768
start on runlevel [2345]
stop on [!12345]
respawn
respawn limit 2 5
umask 007
...
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Daemon service that runs a sequence of processes (balanced distribution)
I have the following problem. I have a machine learning process that runs in the background. Even better, I have plenty (let's say 5) that I want to run them. Each of them is CPU and GPU power ...
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CentOS6 /Rhel 6 boot process
I need some help to understand the boot process. I am reading this documentation which should be the same, please correct me if I am wrong https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/...
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Ubuntu's main bootup only returns blank screen, systemd bootup works fine
I use Grub to boot between Ubuntu and Windows. The options are somewhat like
Ubuntu
Ubuntu (Recovery Mode)
Windows
If I choose 1, it shows the Ubuntu logo, the little balls under it flowing. Then ...
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Issues running Upstart script on server startup
I have an Upstart script that uses the following code:
start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [!2345]
respawn
env PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/opt/lrms/lib/python2.6/site-packages
exec python /opt/...
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View console output from an Upstart job without logfiles
I wrote a custom Java server. I am running it using Upstart (/etc/init/myservice.config) where I launch java -jar myservice.jar.
The java process uses System.out.println to write log messages of all ...
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Excecute Upstart script after a specified service is running
I have two upstart scripts, one to start the teamspeak server and one to start the teamspeak bot as showed below.
teamspeak.service:
[Unit]
Description=Teamspeak Server
After=network.target
[...
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Test upstart script without reboot
Is there a way test an upstart script without rebooting the system ?
I am working on a system that I really don't want to reboot - yet I want to be reasonably sure that my newly written upstart ...
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Unknown runlevel on Ubuntu 14.04, services not starting on boot
I rent a VPS from a VPS company and run an Ubuntu 14.04 web server there. Recently it had to be suspended by my provider for a while. After the suspension period (1-2 days), the VPS boots, but cannot ...
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systemd underestimates boot time. How can I try upstart?
Sorry in advance if this is a stupid question, but I'm new to this issue and every time I google it, I just get comparisons of upstart versus systemd.
Anyway, my Samsung laptop with Mint 18 is taking ...
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How to start the upstart process for golang application?
I am using upstart to start my golang application. I have my application folder structure like this,
Web-app/
/app
main.go
I built the application
$cd /home/ec2-user/go/...
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Upstart services only work on startup
I'm working on Raspbian Jessie and I wrote my upstart script by follows this tutorial. Here is my /etc/init/videostream.conf script file.
# RPI Camera Service
description "RPICAM streaming"
...
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How to start a service on boot after ldap account is available
I have a machine hosting an LDAP database and services on other machines run as users from that database. Because the user accounts does not exist locally, the services fail to start when those ...
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Making environment variables available for downstream processes started within an init.d script
This questions stems from @FrustratedWithFormsDesigner comment.
How do I make export environment variables set within an init.d script available to downstream processes started within that same init....
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Why this error about upstart/systemd with runit?
I run sudo apt-get install git-all in Ubuntu 16.04 and see the following in the end
Setting up runit (2.1.2-3ubuntu1) ...
start: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/...
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How to use Upstart scripts on CentOS7?
I need to create a file /etc/init/start_swift.conf with following commands:
description "mount swift drives"
start on runlevel [234]
stop on runlevel [0156]
exec /opt/swift/bin/mount_devices
But the ...
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Is there any systemd equivalent to “initctl emit”?
In upstart, it was possible to send custom events with initctl emit custom-event. It was also possible to use these custom events on the start on and stop on stanzas. Does systemd provides something ...
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Confusion about systemd, environment files and command-line arguments to the service executable
I'm trying to convert an upstart script to systemd, but I can't figure out how to pass command line arguments to the executable. Here is the original upstart script:
# job description
description "...
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Upstart job starts the script twice
I am using Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.13.0-85-generic x86_64) where I created a simple Upstart job:
# content of /etc/init/listener.conf
start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [!2345]
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Systemd: Running a script before msyql stops on shutdown
On my Ubuntu 14 vagrant box I use this upstart script to run automysqlbackup on every vagrant halt:
description "run automysqlbackup"
start on stopping mysql
task
exec automysqlbackup
So ...
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How can output of runlevel be “1 S”?
When I switch from runlevel 3 to runlevel 1 on my CentOS 6 box the output of runlevel is 1 S:
# runlevel
1 S
I'd expect the output to be 3 1. It's not a big deal but I'm keen to understand the logic ...
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When is the appropriate time to start Redshift using upstart?
I have been trying to get Redshift to start before login so that the bright welcome screen does not blind me, in particular when switching users.
Running Redshift as a service does not seem fully ...
