The scripts to be executed at boot, usually for starting deamons and mounting file systems.
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Is it possible to emulate a DOS autoexec startup of a process on a linux login terminal? [closed]
I am porting an old C++ DOS application to Linux. I am running a buildroot generated embedded file system and kernel that is using the busybox init mechanism. As part of the old application it had a ...
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why do I have two different results if I run a program through terminal(as root) or /etc/init.d(or /etc/rc.local)
Background:
I use Debian Lenny on an embedded device
uname -a
Linux device 3.4.0 #83 Sun May 26 17:07:14 CEST 2013 armv4l GNU/Linux
I have a C code (say my_C_program) that calls a board specific ...
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adding a program on start-up by using LSBInitScripts
I use Debian Lenny (I know lenny is old and other bla bla) and would like to place a program on the start-up. I use update-rc.d by adding an executable file on /etc/init.d. By referring to ...
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Change init scripts priority
I'm running a raspbian (based on debian). I want to change the priority of the init services so the very first script which is run by init is one made for me. How can I do it?
On runlevel S I have ...
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Init script header not resolving dependency
I need to run a /usr/sbin command in my init script, so there is a dependency for the /usr filesytem to be mounted.
To resolve the dependency, I put $local_fs or boot.localfs (I also tried ...
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Init script partially launches java app
I have a java application that I manage to execute by hand. The application normally opens several ports for local communications (7180 => 7183). Port 7182 serves as a web console and allows me to ...
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Need to configure network card manually after each reboot
I am using SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64) as VM Ware virtual machine (that was cloned). Not sure why but network card cannot be configured via yast2. If I go to edit and hit enter Yast will ...
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Distro agnostic init script dependencies
I'm trying to write an init script which will be able to handle basic dependencies (for example, It has to be started (just) before MySQL service starts). Is there a distro agnostic way to write such ...
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Why does my server not shutdown properly?
When I run $ reboot on my embedded FreeNAS 0.7 (FreeBSD 7.2) it does start the shut down procedure but seemingly hangs.
I have registered a command to start a service script which is executed on ...
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Networking starts up but interface has no IP
I have a box that is supposed to run headless.
When I boot and manually run /etc/init.d/networking everything starts fine.
When I add it to my startup scripts ( /etc/rcS.d) as placed by sysv-rc-conf ...
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Displaying all sysvinit init scripts
Is there some tool that displays all available init scripts (on Debian), short of one having to remember a location like /etc/init.d, not to mention that not everything in there is an init script?
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What are the chkconfig directives (classic style) into init.d scripts?
To ask my question, I must first clarify the context.
Every init script in /etc/init.d (on RedHat and Centos distros) is prepared to be managed with the chkconfig command-line tool utility.
This ...
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“provide net” in gentoo init script doesn't work as I thought
I'm running into a strange (to me) problem.
I'm running a gentoo with two net interfaces: enp5s0 (wired interface) and wlan0 (wifi). When I try to run a program, for example openvpn, from its script ...
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Mezzanine start up script
I am having a world of pain writing a simple start up script for Mezzanine. Running python manager.py runserver just refuses to demonize using start-stop-daemon. Does anyone know of a such a simple ...
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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 ...
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How do I determine whether my services are using runit or init?
How do I determine whether my services are using runit or init? I use Ubuntu 10.0.4.
Such as nginx, chef, puppet, etc.
Thanks.
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How to make unix service see environment variables?
I have set my environment variable using /etc/profile:
export VAR=/home/userhome
Then if I do echo $VAR it shows /home/userhome
But when I put reference to this variable into 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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How to write init.d script log messages to disk?
I'm running Debian wheezy. Many scripts in /etc/init.d/ use various logging functions defined in the Linux Standard Base, like log_success_msg and log_warning_msg. The LSB documentation seems a bit ...
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Aliases for 'sudo /etc/init.d/'
Are there any standards for aliasing sudo /etc/init.d/? I'm sure many people have considered cutting down these 17 characters to just 2 or so.
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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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Difference between /etc/init.d/networking restart and invoke-rc.d networking restart
Is there any real difference between /etc/init.d/networking restart and invoke-rc.d networking restart (Debian)?
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Running script before shutdown seemingly not working
I created a small script backup_files.sh and placed it in /etc/init.d:
#/bin/sh
logfile=/media/verbatim/log
date >> $logfile
rsync -av /home/philipp/Documents /media/verbatim/ >> $logfile
...
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VMWare daemon doesn't startup when system starts
I have installed VMware Player on my Debian squueze, but after the reboot the vmware daemon(/etc/init.d/vmware) does not start up automatically, i have tried without any success to set the daemon ...
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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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add command to /etc/init.d/rc.local file that's missing
Want to add the command
sudo mount -t vboxsf H_DRIVE /media/windows7share
to /etc/init.d/rc.local file, to run the command every time when system starts up but I don't have such a file (rc.local) ...
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Changing user in a script?
I am trying to change user in order to execute a specific command during startup. It fails silently and apparently the userchange isn't carried out as I can tell that the command isn't executed.
What ...
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Gentoo on VM setting IP Manually
I installed Gentoo on Virtualbox with the minimal image. This is the first time I am running gentoo. I need to do
ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.10
route add default gw 192.168.0.1
everytime it boots on ...
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Need help to create a Unix shell startup script [closed]
Is there a way to create a Unix shell script (on HP-UX) that will start on server at boot time only, and will execute the following commands in order:
# cd /mysql
# ./bin/safe_mysqld --user=root ...
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What's the difference between /etc/rc.d/rc*.d and /etc/rc*.d
I know that rc*.d directories are used at startup, or reboot, or so on time, for starting or stopping programs. Can anybody explain me what's the difference between the rc*.d folders placed under the ...
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Prevent init daemon echoing on TTY
Below is an init script which starts/stops a daemon. The daemon is unfortunately printing the parsed packet data (from /home/nuthan/program/server), a socket server written in perl, listening to a ...
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What's the connection between “/etc/init.d” and “/etc/rcX.d” directories in Linux?
I am learning command line from a book called "Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Bible, Second Edition." The book states this:
Some Linux implementations contain a table of processes to start
...
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How to make “notify-send” work from daemon application [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can I launch a graphical program on another user's desktop as root?
I wrote a script which starts from init.d .When it finishes I need it to notify-send a message to ...
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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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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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How to create an unprivileged user in CentOS?
I want to create an unprivileged user to run my RhodeCode server and Celery daemon on a CentOS instance. I think the accepted definition of this is no home directory, login disabled, and no shell ...
