Computer program that runs as a background process, rather than being under the direct control of an interactive user.
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Properly Setting Red Hat Daemon Umask
I've been trying to figure out the proper location to set daemon umasks in RedHat 5. All my searches lead to setting it in /etc/init.d/functions or /etc/sysconfig/init.
What are the pros/cons of ...
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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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Lock a script starting daemons
I'm run a script with cron:
*/10 * * * * flock -n /tmp/lock script
I have to make sure that only one instance of the script is running at the same time, and for that I'm using flock. The problem is ...
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Get transmission web interface working with web server
I have my transmission server working on default port and i want to be able to
use the web interface with an url like http://my.domain/torrents.
I tried adding a location and a proxy conf to nginx ...
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Which script from /etc/init.d/ started the process?
Let's say we have a PID of a process and we know that it was started by init during startup. How do we find the script name that started it?
One way is to run grep $PROCESS_NAME /etc/init.d/*, but ...
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How to setup a simple email daemon with autorespond and mail forwarding?
Since my mail provider unfortunately offers neither an autoresponder nor forwarding mail to others during vacancy, I'd like to setup e.g. a RaspberryPi to regularly check my mail account (via POP3 or ...
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What is log_daemon_msg ?
I was looking through /etc/init.d/ssh to get an idea of how a "proper" sys daemon is run at boot (I'm trying to add svnserve to that list). I saw this log_daemon_msg used as a command, but I have no ...
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How do I write a login daemon?
There are many guides to the steps for correctly launching a daemon process, such as Stevens' chapter in Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment. There is less agreement on what steps should be ...
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Why does “su -c <command> &” seemingly allow a command to run in the background without hanging up
I was helping a colleague who was having problems with a background process intermittently dying.
I found out that they were starting the background process by logging in to the server and executing:
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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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How to set OOM killer adjustments for daemons permanently?
Running some Linux servers with single or just a few vital system service daemons, I would like to adjust the OOM killer for those daemonized processes in case something odd happens. For example, ...
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What's the difference between running a program as a daemon and forking it into background with '&'?
What are the practical differences from a sysadmin point of view when deploying services on a unix based system?
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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 check that a daemon is listening on what interface?
Ex.: an sshd is configured to only listen on wlan0. So. Besides checking the sshd_config how can I check that a daemon is listening on what inerface? netstat can do it? how? (OS: openwrt or scientific ...
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Ubuntu12.04: How to disable a daemon process at startup
I normally use service start/stop or initctl start/stop to start or stop a daemon process but now what I am looking for is to disable a daemon process from starting at startup example mysqld.
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Upstart: How to respond to startup of a service, thats not part of Upstart?
I'm running Ubuntu server and playing around with Upstart. I have installed PostgreSQL database server which doesn't use Upstart system, however im also writting an Upstart script that starts another ...
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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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Auto Start MySQL and Apache
How does one get certain daemons to automatically startup on a restart of the server?
I found this post on Server Fault but I am looking of a more in depth explanation of how getting a daemon to auto ...
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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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What does `avahi-dnsconfd` daemon?
I've installed KDE desktop, that depends on avahi. It has two daemons avahi-daemon and avahi-dnsconfd.
In ArchLinux wiki there is no info about avahi-dnsconfd. I've tried Daemon and Avahi pages.
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is there something like a per-user daemon?
I need to run some background processes that live as long as I am logged in with a certain user.
Does there exist something like a per-user daemon? I know only of global daemons that live from ...
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Why does Ubuntu store the daemon logs on /var/log/daemon.log.1 instead of /var/log/daemon.log?
Pretty much what the title says. Trying to cat /var/log/daemon.log doesn't produce any output, while cat /var/log/daemon.log.1 does. Why do daemons store logs to the /var/log/daemon.log.1 file instead ...
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How to log processes in daemon-mode?
I would like to save the standard output of the program motion in a text file. If I don't use motion in daemon-mode I would simply do it by:
motion > log.txt
But what is the equivalent when I ...
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Heartbeat 3 binding socket error
I've been tying to install Heartbeat3.0.5+Pacemaker1.0.12 on CentOS 6.3 64bit via yum. The installation seems to be successful, but there is a problem when starting Heartbeat.
I put some info related ...
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How to prevent atd from running past jobs?
The at daemon is a great tool! However, if a job is scheduled for 8:00 am and the machine is off at that time, at will run the job whenever the machine is booted. What I would like to do is stop it ...
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How Do I Add My Own Daemons in Arch Linux? (BSD-style init)
I have created a symlink to a start/stop/etc. wrapper bash script in /etc/rc.d, added it to DAEMONS=() in rc.conf, but the process it points to isn’t starting on boot, and isn’t showing up in the ...
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Is it good practice to create a background job within an init script if the process can not daemonize itself?
I am fairly new to *nix, and have come across the need to drop multiple processes, that should be run 100% of the time. to background using &.
I use the following line in an init.d script to do ...
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daemon function in /init.d does not run the program in the background in fedora13
I use Fedora 13 and am trying to create a service for darkice. I put the script in the /etc/init.d directory and if I use the command service darkice start, the darkice is running in the foreground ...
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Running a command at startup
I recently came across "remind" in Linux. I liked it almost immediately, but for my reminders to pop up, I needed to run 'remind' in daemon mode. Done quite simply using the following command:
remind ...
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How to run Dropbox daemon in background?
I'm using Debian 6 and Dropbox. I followed these commands to install it.
When I run ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd — Dropbox works and stuff. Problem is that when I close terminal or, even worse, — ...
