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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 ...
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Why is bash used in boot scripts?
Why programs run at boot/shutdown are written in bash script?
If a compiled language (or a faster interpreted language, like Python) was used, then its running time would be shorter.
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Bash Script Detects Key Down At Boot
I want to customize my run level scripts based upon a key combo pressed at boot.
How to I test for key presses as early as possible from boot? Do I need to do something special, like for example: ...
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Why does initramfs mount the root filesystem read-only
What is the reason for the root filesystem being mounted ro in the initramfs (and in initrd).
For example the Gentoo initramfs guide mounts the root filesystem with:
mount -o ro /dev/sda1 /mnt/root
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How to run a program on boot up?
So I have this program which I manually run as root :
sudo gammu-smsd -c /etc/gammu-smsdrc -d
What this does is it runs the Gammu (software to manage gsm modems) and 'daemonize' it. My problem is ...
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How can I make a script in /etc/init.d start at boot?
I think I read something a while back about this, but I can't remember how it's done. Essentially, I have a service in /etc/init.d which I'd like to start automatically at boot time. I remember it ...
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load program/module at boot
I'm trying to load a program I wrote at boot. The program is also a module.ko and a small bash script. For the module I tried doing depmod mymodule.ko and modprobe -a and messing around with modprob ...
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Removing abstraction from Ubuntu boot process
I have been using Linux after almost 5 years and observed that boot process has been almost abstracted. I mean, not much is visible to the user what is going on behind the scenes (Due to splash ...
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Create services in Linux (Start up in linux)
I need one process run before log in to system. how to run it like services?(how do I make services in Linux?)
in Ubuntu and Fedora ?
the service is customized tomcat
