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udisks-daemon eating up all my memory

I'm operating a little storage server on debian, over the past months I've noticed the process udisks-daemon eating up almost all available memory. Is this just really aggressive caching or a memory ...
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start-stop-daemon saves wrong PID

$ ps aux | grep svn root **4458** ... /usr/bin/svnserve -d -r /var/svn manuel 4466 ... grep --color=auto svn $ sudo kill **4458** $ sudo rm /var/run/svnserve.pid $ sudo start-stop-daemon ...
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Bash - Program is writing directly to terminal

Valve's dedicated server for the Source Engine (srcds_run) on Linux writes directly to the terminal, not stdout. I want to run it as an /etc/init.d daemon on Debian 6, and I'd like to redirect/capture ...
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Debian startup - start a daemon after postgresql

i'm configuring my debian server and i don't manage to start a daemon correctly. In order to start, my daemon has to find the Postgresql socket (located at /var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432), but ...
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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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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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Invoking java using start-stop-daemon causing excessive CPU usage

Short version Why does Java consume far more CPU time when launched via start-stop-daemon than when launched directly from the terminal? OS: Debian Squeeze x86 Java version: Sun Java SE 1.6.0_24 ...
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How to install Mono XSP as a daemon on Debian?

I want XSP to run on my virtual Debian 5 as a daemon. How can I do that? I tried next: $ sudo cp /etc/init.d/skeleton /etc/init.d/xsp updated the script properly: ...
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Updating start-stop-daemon on Debian

I have Debian Lenny box, where I plan to extensively use start-stop-daemon. The trouble is, the standard Debian start-stop-daemon doesn't support output redirection: --stdout and --stderr keys, which ...
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Debian package with init.d without autostart

I'm trying to create a package which contains the init.d file, but doesn't try to start the daemon right after the installation. Currently, I'm using scripts created from the dh_make template. Right ...
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Is there a “standard” way to make daemon in Debian?

I need to create a daemon from the application in Debian. Is there any standard tool for this in Debian like "upstart" in Ubuntu? I need only start-stop commands, to start a program as a daemon with ...
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is there a difference between a daemon and a service?

Is there a difference between a daemon or a service? or are they both basically an application that is resident in memory, and is bound to a specific port and listens/responds to requests?
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Disable a service from starting at all runlevels?

I have a service foo which currently starts at runlevel 3 and above. How can I stop it from doing so, without using update-rc.d foo stop 3 ., which (if I understand it correctly) would turn off the ...
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Debian: Too many open files

I have long running process at Debian. At some point in throw an error "Too many open files". ulimit -a shows open files (-n) 1024 I wish to increase number of open ...
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How do I create an interactive daemon login?

I run a service on a debian/linux machine which runs at boot with a 'screen' session I can always attach to. I would like to create a username which I can run this service as. At the moment I use a ...