Questions tagged [daemon]
On linux an unix-like systems is demon the designation of processes running in the background and providing certain services. Direct user intaractions with demons are not intended.
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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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Should I rather explicitly run programs in foreground (instead as a daemon), or `expect fork` when configuring upstart daemons?
Many programs allow to be run either in daemon mode (which is usually the default), or explicitly run it in foreground with a flag such as -f.
Now when configuring upstart to run programs like this, ...
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How to kill rsync daemon that keeps respawning
How do I kill these rsync daemons that keep respawning
root@que2 ~ # ps aux | grep rsync
root 9660 0.0 0.0 19928 2844 ? S 13:35 0:00 rsync -rlptD --progress --delete --exclude=server/...
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How can I troubleshoot a systemctl maintained daemon, on Oracle Linux 7, when it dies immediately after being spawned?
I'm trying to run jenkins, via systemctl, and it keeps dying immediately after being started. There is nothing in the "systemctl status" nor in "journalctl". Jenkins logs also show nothing.
I've ...
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systemd user units and debian wheezy
I'm running a debian wheezy server and switched to systemd by installing systemd-sysv. So far everything works as before. Now I want to allow users to run/ manage their own units/ daemons with systemd....
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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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What is the fastest method of getting a small amount of data from whitelisted servers?
I have a bunch of servers which build various different programs for various different systems.
Once a build has completed, it gets archived into a single file and compressed, then an md5sum is ...
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Postfix doesn't run in macOS Ventura
I have just updated my Mac to macOS Ventura. When I try to start postfix, it says "$daemon_directory/master -t 2> /dev/null postfix/postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix mail system is already ...
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Retrieving the current PTP settings of an Ubuntu machine
I have an Ubuntu machine (18.04) with PTPd installed. I want to write a script that can determine what PTP settings have been set previously.
Specifically, I want to find information on the master PTP ...
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Lsyncd runs but does not update files
So I installed the daemon and configure it as :
matias@~
$ cat /etc/lsyncd/lsyncd.conf.lua
settings {
logfile = "/var/log/lsyncd/lsyncd.log",
statusFile = "/tmp/lsyncd.stat",
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Sending different signals for system shutdown and manual stops in supervisord
I have a set of auto-scaled EC2 instances that run a daemon managed by supervisord on each instance.
I want to differentiate the clean-up behavior for the following cases:
when shutting down ...
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How to run linux daemon in container linked to another container with docker-compose?
Disclaimer: I'm posting this here because people started to vote to close this question on SO as "off-topic". Although some people believe Docker questions should be posted on SO as opposed to SF, ...
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Run nscd in multiple network namespaces
How to run an instance of nscd daemon per network namespace? I did the following:
ip netns exec <network_namespace> /usr/sbin/nscd
However, it threw output
/usr/sbin/nscd: already running
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Debian 8/init.d: start daemon after "$named" is ready
I am trying to start a init.d daemon on Debian 8 after network and DNS is up and running. That's the script I am using:
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: local_daemon
# Required-Start: $all ...
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How can I create a log for an existing daemon?
I have a deamon running (that I did not create) and I need to be able to read its logs. Unfortunately, it does not have a log file. Is there a way to pipe the daemon's output into a file, and have it ...
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How to do remote calls from server A to B to create virtual machines
This is my first question on serverfault so I hope I'm doing this right as I'm usually on Stackoverflow :-)
I have two Ubuntu 14.04 LTS servers, server A and B.
Server A runs the web server where ...
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"Job failed to start" - Hey but why?
I'm running through an error that's giving me serious headache. Tried to Google for it but all I find is about MySQL which doesn't apply here.
I've just updated Node and Ghost (blogging platform) on ...
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how do I set monit to non-daemon mode
I'm trying to get monit to just excite the monitrc script once and then exit.
I've tried
monit -v -Ic /tmp/monitrc
but when I look at the output it says:
Runtime constants:
Control file =...
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Supervisord as Windows Service on Cygwin
I am attempting to run Celery as a Windows Service using Supervisord. I followed the configuration laid out on the Celery site and here. I have set up a virtual environment to run supervisord through ...
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Oracle 6.5: MySQL Daemon failed to start
I installed MySQL by following these instructions on my Oracle Linux Server release 6.5, specifically using the yum package installer command,
yum install mysql mysql-server mysql-libs mysql-server
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Upstart - make "reload" behave like "restart"
I have a daemon process that doesn't respond to SIGHUP sent when running reload.
It runs under an unprivileged user, and I can't restart it without sudo privileges.
Is there a way to make reload to ...
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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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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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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 ...
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Docker daemon inactive (dead)
I am having trouble with my Portainer GUI. I can't seem to find my local environment. As a solution, I changed some parameters in the 'docker.socket' file on my Ubuntu server. However, this seems to ...
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Dockerd run as ServiceUnit alters /tmp access
It's been my first success weeks developing Docker containers using dockerd along its plugins and recently i found out some problems after automating the daemon.
Tried to manipulate dockerd as a ...
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How to restart deluged daemon on macos?
I am running an old macbook pro as a server and have deluged running on it.
How can I restart the daemon without having to restart my server each time?
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Is there a daemon that can poll Prometheus targets and relay to Graphite?
I am running a Graphite based collection, and have a couple of Prometheus only apps that I would like to be able to monitor through that.
Does anyone know of a proxy-like piece of software that can ...
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Multiple instances of systemd unit not writing to log files
I'm trying to create a systemd unit file that will take an argument for a php script.
The small php script:
<?php
$val = $argv[1];
while(true) {
echo "Argument = $val\n";
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clamav - clamd error when setup as daemon (mac osx)
Issue:
Setting up clamav as a daemon process in mac osx throws some cumbersome errors and warnings while doing the setup and the documentation is good, but not perfect. I ran into some permission ...
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How return to prompt after execution of script that spawns a daemon?
$ cat appleclue.sh
#!/usr/local/bin/bash
source ~/.venv/appleclue/bin/activate
cd ~/applications/appleclue/appleclue-web/
git pull
pip install -r requirements.txt
python3.9 manage.py migrate --...
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Setting UMask in systemd override.conf is ignored
I'm using amavisd on fedora33 and trying to change the file permissions on the socket it creates so nagios and nrpe can read the file in the amavis group.
The file permissions currently are as such:
# ...
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Fedora28 - firewalld stopped working as it unable to communicate with ABRT daemon
We are currently running a Fedora 28 server. Due to the server being restarting multiple times, FirewallD has stopped working. Based on the error messages presented when we run the command systemctl ...
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Linux OS hangs at boot due to daemon systemd service fault
i have a python script that does infinite loop on functions written, and i have added this to systemd as service so i want to run python script at background and control its from systemctl.
sudo vi /...
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Making git daemon serve the repo I created
I've been wracking my brain over this and came to a possible conclusion with no solution. First, my dilemma.
I have a project where I can create a repo programmatically. I can edit the description of ...
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How to start a daemon at boot time after all other services are ready
I have developed a daemon in Linux. It works correctly, however, when I set that script to be started at boot time, it has conflict with other service, so I need to start it after all services have ...
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Running td-agent (fluentd) init.d script under Supervisor got (spawn error)
I have installed td-agent and they provide an init.d script that you can run it with, I have configured td-agent and I run it via the init.d script and it's running smoothly, but I want to move td-...
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Trying to enable auditd but svcadm not in solaris 10
I am new to Solaris.
environment: Solaris 10/ i386
Here's my problem:
I want to enable auditd to start generating system auditing log file. (Like service aduitd start in CentOS.)
And every guide I ...
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passing labels parameter to daemon.json in Docker
I am trying to setup docker daemon on Centos 7.
The goal is to pass parameters to the overriding script in systemd and keep everything in daemon.json that is much more readable and cleaner
Default ...
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OpenVPN exits when network connectivity is restored
I'm using OpenVPN as a daemon and when I lose the internet connection, OpenVPN waits for 2 minutes before it tries to restart each 5 seconds. This is as I want it to behave. However when the internet ...
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linux, daemon startup, determine if launched by initd or user
in my /etc/init.d/blabla script, which is the correct way to determine if the system is booting or the user root is runnig the script ?
I am thinking about
* parent pid
* euid
* terminal... pts ?
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Is it safe to give ownership of files to “daemon”?
I was having trouble uploading files using my CMS (Drupal). When I put more restrictive file permissions on, I could not upload anything. Then I changed the owner of the upload directory and all sub-...
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Multiple Gunicorn daemons for Django projects with Nginx result in 502 Bad Gateway for one
I want to run two Django applications on the same server, with Nginx and Gunicorn. I can run them separately, but not both at the same time: When I try, one is OK, but for the other one I receive 502. ...
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multipathd not working after restarting
Multipathd is not working on CentOS 6.5 x86_64:
device-mapper-multipath-libs-0.4.9-87.el6.x86_64
device-mapper-multipath-0.4.9-87.el6.x86_64
I'm getting below error while restarting ...
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Cross distro daemon command?
I'm trying to write a script to launch a daemon on both centos and debian.
This is the current pseudo script:
if [ =f "/etc/init.d/functions" ]
then
. /etc/unit.d/functions
alias ...
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Cannot bind to port > 1007?
I want to bind a server to port 1023.
If I specify any free port > 1007, I have a "address already in use" error, but it works for ports <= 1007.
Working as root on Debian 7.8...
Any idea??
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init.d script appears to run but dies immediately
I registered the init.d script and when I invoke this directly /etc/init.d/gae it appears to work...PID file is created but the process is no where to be seen by the time I do a ps
I have googled and ...
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Start daemon after specific samba share is mounted
I asked this question on AskUbuntu, but it's not getting any traction there... So I'll try here as well:
I have a homebrew headless NAS running 12.04.
In it I have a bunch of disks that are ...
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Why is there no (Debian) init.d script for usbipd? Should I write my own?
I just installed the usbip package on my Debian Wheezy (7.1) . For some reason, it comes without an init.d script.
Why is there no init.d script for it?
Should I roll out my own? Or am I doing ...
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Java daemon: "...not allowed access to the window system right now." on boot
I have a daemon (/Library/LaunchDaemons/...) configured to launch on boot. However, I get the following error:
Nov 17 20:36:24 server.local java[28972]: This user is not allowed access to the window ...