The scripts to be executed at boot, usually for starting deamons and mounting file systems.
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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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How can I run a shell script as a daemon under Redhat?
I've got a shell script, which is essentially a one liner with some logging, which I'm trying to run this from an init script. I'm using the daemon function inside of /etc/init.d/functions to run it, ...
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davmail systemd launcher on headless server
I'm trying to follow the ArchWiki guide for writing a custom service file to launch DavMail as a system-wide daemon. Previously I had a line in my ~/.xinitrc that read
nohup /usr/bin/davmail ...
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Mount /etc from disc into squashfs
I've created a gentoo-live system which should be booted from a CF-card. The whole file-system is in a squashfs. I've created a custom initrd which first mounts the CF-card and from there the squashed ...
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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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Converting update-rc.d redis_6379 defaults to chkconfig command
I'm trying to run the commmand below to Centos and of course I get command not found. How do I then convert it to chkconfig ?
update-rc.d redis_6379 defaults
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How can I make this daemon/init run as a non root user?
I have an init script to kick off a daemon. The problem is it runs as root. I would like it to run as a user called "deploy". Ubuntu 12.04
#! /bin/sh
# File: /etc/init.d/unicorn
### BEGIN INIT ...
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/etc/init.d/script, or /etc/inittab - respawn on die
I have a daemon/service (milter-regex), that is dying. I'm only using it temporarily (A few months), so don't care too much, but I want it to restart when it dies.
It is an init.d script. 'service ...
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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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Jboss application startup and shutdown asks for password. Howto automate with init script?
Jboss application startup and shutdown of BMC-IDM asks for password (called keystore password, some Java stuff).
Howto automate with init script?
Stop application
> stop_idm_suite.sh
Suite ...
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Naming process in init scripts
I'm trying to write an init script that will start a service that needs to have started postgresql server before. Bellow is the postgresql's init header:
#!/bin/sh
#
# postgresql This is the init ...
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inittab '-' character in process field
I have a an inittab file with the following entry:
console::askfirst:-/bin/ash
According to this Man page a '+' character in the process field means
init will not do utmp and wtmp accounting ...
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Why does Redhat's daemon function not have a group setting?
Background:
I'm a Ubuntu/Debian fan and most of my development experience has been on that platform but my current employer uses Redhat. I needed to write a simple init.d script and want the ...
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How to write startup script for systemd
I have 2 graphics cards on my laptop, one is IGP and another discrete, I've written a shell script to to turn off discrete graphics card.
How I can convert it to systemd script, to runt at start-up?
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Can readahead-services be safely disabled?
I am just going through the service-list of a server (CentOS 5) - the question will probably apply to other RedHat, Fedora, ... versions, too.
Note that my servers normally run in runlevel 3 (no GUI ...
