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debian symlink existing daemon incrond to start at boot
I'm triying to start the incron daemon "incrond" at boot but doesn't work.
I have done :
ln -s /usr/sbin/incrond /etc/init.d/incrond
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/incrond
update-rc.d incrond enable
But no ...
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telling runit to pick up a new service immediately
As a happy user of runit - I am curious if it is possible to send a signal to the main process (or similar) telling it to look now at the service directory? the current behaviour is < 5 seconds ...
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Equivalent for the “pid file” stanza in newer versions of upstart
I'd like to be able to use upstart to manage daemons where I don't have complete control over the forking behaviour. The "pid" stanza is removed as of version 0.3.9, so I can't point it at a pid file. ...
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Init script & the green [ OK ]
I am trying to install fast-cgi for nginx on an EC2 instance. I followed the steps explained here, but that is meant for Debian and does not work out of the box for a red-hat based system. I modified ...
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Both nginx and php5-fpm init.d startup scripts are non-functional and returning no errors..? But they used to work perfectly
I have been using nginx and php5-fpm on my Ubuntu box for a while now. Everything has been configured and setup correctly, and it ran like a charm.
I have been keeping the packages updated & ...
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Simple network queue daemon for port 9100 printer
I have a printer that is connected via the port 9100 aka AppSocket aka JetDirect protocol, which is basically no protocol at all but everything that is sent to that port is interpreted as print data. ...
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AFP / Apple Filling Protocol aka Netatalk access over Internet
I got a simple cloud server and thought it would be nice to have mac native afp
Volumes accesss. Installed Netatalk and this seems to work pretty nice.
No sensitive data or something but I don't ...
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How to run a service as daemon in Centos 5
In Ubuntu, I use -D to run a service as daemon. I wonder there is any similar command to do this in Centos.
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logging in daemon process
I'm new to all this stuff, so please forgive if a question is stupid. I'm running a script as daemon, in order to debug it I'm trying to dump logs in file, but no file is created. And if I run script ...
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Monitoring on java daemon on centos
I have a java application which I run using yasjw tool as a daemon. I need to monitor it in case it goes down I need some kind of alert or even restart it. Is there any tool can help me do this on ...
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Ubuntu Server SSH does not autostart
I use a VPS with Ubuntu 10.04. After I performed "apt-get upgrade", the ssh daemon stopped working and does not automatically start when I restart my server. I have only access to files (edit, create ...
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Run as different user
On a RedHat system, i'm trying to launch a program with a different user who dont have any shell. In /etc/passwd, shell is /sbin/nologin.
I have tried:
su myuser -c /home/myuser/script.sh
Result: ...
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Nginx daemon doesn't want to stop on Ubuntu
I've got an Ubuntu 11.04 i386 server with Nginx 1.0.11. I'm also using this init.d script - the only one I've found. The server starts up well, but each time I'm trying to stop or restart it, the ...
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How to install Shibboleth Service Provider on Windows Azure instance?
I have been going by the Shibboleth2 wiki IIS installation guide, specifically the steps for IIS7. I have just been remoting into a hosted service instance to follow these steps. I installed the 64 ...
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Can daemontools (djbtools) be configured to start multiple processes as a single UNIX service?
If I have an application that requires two separate processes (front- and back-end) to run properly, is it possible to launch both of them from a single runscript and have daemontools supervise both ...
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Running JBoss 6 with Runit / daemontools or other process supervision framework
I'm tying to use runit to daemonize JBoss.
I use the /opt/jboss-6.1.0.Final/bin/run.sh script to start the server. When I do so from the comandline, JBoss does not detach (which is what we want), ...
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Force a process to use a particular cpu core? [closed]
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Is it possible to limit a Linux process so that it can only run on a particular core on a particular machine?
I would like to know how can I bind a process to a ...
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How to stop pptpd even when there are active vpn client connections?
After issued command to stop pptpd, the pptpd won't stop until all the VPN client has disconnected. The following code shows pptpd is still running after issuing the stop command.
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Nginx doesn't seem to stop correctly
I'm using the following script to start/stop nginx:
#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: nginx
# Required-Start: $all
# Required-Stop: $all
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# ...
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start-stop-daemon checking for existing running processq
I'm starting a python script that i've created using start-stop-daemon. It works perfectly in all cases, except when I've forgotten that I've already started it. It creates a new process, but is ...
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Correct way to stop .exe run as a Windows Service with Commons Daemon?
I am using the Apache Commons Daemon (prunsrv.exe) as a wrapper to run an .exe as a Windows Service. However, I am not sure what the proper way of killing only this instance of the .exe is when the ...
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Service generated content interaction with PHP
I have a daemonized service that generates content at /usr/share/service/content
I need this content to be accessible from PHP.
The service runs under a user named _service which belongs to the same ...
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How to Start Linux Daemon program at boot up
I am confused on how to start my Daemon C program at boot-up. The program runs as a Daemon OK when I satrt it from command shell, but now I want it to start up every time at boot-up. I have searched ...
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Spawning multiple instances of a daemon in Ubuntu
I have a python script that listens and blocks while it waits for data on a redis list.
It runs fine in upstart using the following:
description "stage message consumer"
author "Nilesh Ashra"
start ...
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How to make rinetd logging non-buffered?
Is there any way to get rinetd to flush the buffer automatically every n entries or n minutes, or set it to non-buffered?
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Call to daemon in a /etc/init.d script is blocking, not running in background
I have a Perl script that I want to daemonize. Basically this perl script will read a directory every 30 seconds, read the files that it finds and then process the data. To keep it simple here ...
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shell script to start multiple Java programs from a directory at boot
I'm not sure if this is the best approach to this, It's my first time doing all of this (including writing shell scripts).
OS:
Centos
My problem:
I want to start multiple shell scripts at boot.
One ...
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What is the difference between Windows XP services and Windows 7 services?
I have downloaded an open source C++ application. This application run as a Linux daemon, listening at a port, and waiting for connection from client PC. Someone has compiled this application under ...
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Is it possible to circumvent public key authentication restrictions using SSH daemon?
My web hosting plan does not support public key authentication, however advice given in Public key authentication unsupported by web host. Method to avoid entering password? question suggests it may ...
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Running python script as a daemon in debian
I'm trying to run my python script as a service... But I'm getting this error when I call sudo update-rc.d mylistener start:
Use of uninitialized value $ARGV[1] in pattern match (m//) at ...
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Ensure that a via ftp uploaded file is complete
I want to write a script that runs on a server and looks for a configuration file every x seconds and starts or kills other scripts depending on the data in the configuration file. My question now is: ...
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Upstart, no feedback whether starting failed
I have a daemon in /opt/xyz/bin/xyz. Unfortunately it cannot fork itself into background and will not be able to do so within the next half year. My problem is the following: Entering
service xyz ...
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Linux: user defined daemons/services
I'm looking for a framework/library/environment so an ordinary user can set up it's own server processes. These processes should run under his uid as any other user process.
However the definition of ...
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init script that logs output of the script
How can this be done? I know it's pretty simple and includes appending something like & or &> to the actual command that starts the init script.
But, what is the best approach and how can ...
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public key authentication fails ONLY when sshd is daemon
(This question had been erroneously asked in stack overflow -- I'm sorry for that -- and closed as "off topic")
I have no clue on how this happens. The distro is Scientific Linux 6.1 and everything ...
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Running Celery as a Daemon while using VirtualEnv
I've setup and tested celery on my amazon linux server, using mysql as the messaging backend and it works fine when running the program directly. My python project and celery install are located in a ...
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Automatically restart simple Linux daemon (polipo) when it dies
I have a polipo proxy running on Ubuntu. It's set to start automatically on boot, but occasionally it just dies. What's the simplest way to have it automatically restarted whenever it exits ...
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How can I make an init script (or daemon?) for an arbitrary program that runs in the background?
I want to use Markdoc, a system that converts markdown files into wiki pages. Markdoc comes with its own server. I created a new user for the wiki and put the wiki files into that user's home ...
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Make Apache send a copy of requests to a script
Let's say we have a huge list of clients (~30) all running on the same server under different users (and other security settings).
I need to write a "spy/logging" script which is able to handle all ...
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What's the difference between a daemon listening on 10.0.2.15:53 and a daemon listening on 0.0.0.0:53?
I wanted to know the difference between these two states, I just did a netstat -anob on my 2008 R2 testing machine.
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Server-side antivirus
We're looking for some sort of antivirus for a server running Linux and can't seem to find a decent one that runs server-side. And by serverside I mean that it could run as a daemon instead of having ...
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Does STDERR go to syslog in an LSB init script?
I am running a Debian system and have an init script in /etc/init.d/ that starts a daemon using start-stop-daemon:
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile /tmp/myproject.pid --exec ...
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How can I run terminal commands at startup on a Mac OSX server?
For example, when the server boots I need to start Tomcat, and I need to start an Android emulator, and then issue some commands to it. These are on the path already. I'm familiar with Linux and ...
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Considerations for building SysV or Upstart compatible Bash scripts
I've just knocked out a quick script for keeping a slave web server in sync with a master using rsync. (https://github.com/simonjgreen/liveFolderSync/blob/master/liveFolderSync.sh)
I'd like to make ...
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Disable nginx, but keep it installed
I have nginx installed on CentOS and now I need it to be disabled (including on reboot), but keep it installed for further use.
Should I only remove /etc/init.d/nginx file? Or is there more graceful ...
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Running Celery as a daemon
I'm testing Celery with RabbitMQ on Ubuntu11.04 on a python project that is not a django project.
I have my celeryconfig.py and my test.py file in /mypath/myproject/.
My /etc/default/celeryd looks ...
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Ubuntu Daemon Best Practices?
I have a RingoJS webserver (runs atop Jetty) that is part a an Apache reverse proxy setup.
I would like multiple Ringo processes to run autonomously in the background, startup automatically on ...
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init.d service died
Adapting some code from a linux forum, I've added a service script to /etc/init.d on my ubuntu natty server to start/stop/restart node.js
It literally was working the first day I made it, but then ...
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How To Install Git Daemon on Ubuntu 10.04 Linux
I tried following this doc...
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Git
...but unfortunately the "initialKeyFileName" step is not explained.
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On Mac upon reboot, how to make a new daemon start and an old daemon not start?
We have a daemon running on a Mac server (10.6.6).
We want to install another newer version of the daemon along side it but not start it.
Then at a specific time, we want to reboot the server and ...
