Questions tagged [start-stop-daemon]
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start-stop-daemon: command not found . This error only occurs at boot time in a cron job
I have scheduled an @reboot cron job to start a service in /etc/init.d
After boot, service is not started when I reach shell command line. The contents of /var/log/cron show the following,
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systemd cannot restart service file
I have written a bash script which I want to run every 60s
(don't worry, I have tried the Script out, it runs perfectly).
Now I wanted to implement it in systemd .service file, but so far it doesn't ...
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How to start git-daemon at boot?
I've created scripts to control starting, stopping, etc. of my git-daemon on Fedora28. I'm now attempting to link these scripts to a systemd service so git-daemon will be available after reboot.
The ...
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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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What does '-- --daemon' mean in start-stop-daemon?
On this man page for start-stop-daemon, there is an example:
start-stop-daemon --start --oknodo --user food --name food --pidfile \
/var/run/food.pid --startas /usr/sbin/food --chuid food -- --...
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Whats the proper what to terminate a script using start-stop-daemon?
I am using a start-stop-daemon to make a INIT script for my script. I am using --make-pidfile cause my script doesnt make its own pid. I can start my script using start and pid file generates with ...
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start-stop-daemon not working as expected
I can't figure out why start-stop-daemon is not running the script below. What am I doing wrong? start-stop-daemon reports that it will start node when using the --test flag, but when I actually run ...
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Starting lighttpd from nagios renders lighttpd broken
I'm using Debian 7.8 (wheezy), and lighttpd 1.4.31 with nagios 3.4.1.
when I start lighttpd normally (as root), everything works as expected:
/etc/init.d/lighttpd start
However, when nagios starts ...
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upstart fail to run service and not able to debug
I am using os-svc-daemon to create my upstart service for openstack project.
my upstart job config is as below
File : /etc/init/myservice.conf
start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [016]
env ...
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Cleaner way to restart daemontools services
In our product, we had created services using daemontools. One of my service looks like this,
/service/test/run
/service/test/log/run (has multilog command to log into ./main dir)
/service/test/log/...
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/bin/sh: difference between variable and direct command
Imagine i have following bash script:
#/bin/sh
#next line will work correctly, outputting user name and current directory
start-stop-daemon --start --exec /bin/su -- root -c 'whoami; ls'
MYVAR="...
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(initscripts) Execute a command, if the command does not complete in 10 seconds, run another
On (Debian) Linux I want to:
Execute a command.
If the command doesn't complete in 10 seconds, kill it and try another command.
The use-case is:
I have a daemon service which I would like to shut ...
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PHP-FPM service status `stop/waiting` but workers are running?
Starting php5-fpm appears to work, but checking the status immediately shows that it is not running:
[root@server ~]# service php5-fpm start
php5-fpm start/running, process 4516
[root@server ~]# ...
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Supplying password to openconnect started via start-stop-daemon
I am attempting to start openconnect via a Debian init script that makes use of start-stop-daemon:
DAEMON=/usr/sbin/openconnect
DAEMON_ARGS="<endpoint> --script /etc/vpnc/vpnc-script --user <...
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change java process name
I am trying to change a java process name using the start-stop-daemon.
When running the process without the daemon I simply add to the script: "exec -a kuku"
And the java process name in the proc file ...
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What things are messed up after reboot in Linux? Very strange issue: LDAPS stops working only after reboot
I have a Centos 6.3 virtualbox VM snapshot with LDAPS (openldap) set up. I've set up it few days ago following tips from different sources and wrote down everything afterwards. But when I try to ...
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install CouchDB without a package manager
I have the ability to shell into a Linux (RHEL6) server, and manage mostly everything, but I don't have root user abilities, so I can't use YUM or any of the available package managers on the box. ...
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What is the maximum allowable startup time for a daemon startup script?
What is the maximum allowable startup time for a daemon startup script?
I do have a tomcat server that takes a lot of time to start and I could include logic inside the startup script to check if the ...
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How to pass environment to start-stop-daemon based nginx init script [duplicate]
I am using Nginx with Passenger to serve a Rails app. I have hit a strange problem where NginX is not reading the environment variables that the app needs when started normally by the init script. I ...
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How can I generate a command for start-stop-daemon that will kill the process if it doesn't term during a timeout period?
I need to run a start-stop-daemon for a redis instance and I want it to send a SIGTERM and if the redis instance doesn't quit i would like it to force a quit.
The start-stop-daemon configuration says ...
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start-stop-daemon can't find executable that's right in front of it
root@mountain-lion:/opt/smartfox# ls -lha
total 180K
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4.0K 2012-06-01 14:09 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K 2012-06-01 09:41 ..
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4.0K 2009-05-17 21:57 lib
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Proper Bash Daemon Script Creation
On Ubuntu, I copied /etc/init.d/skeleton as a new file and made it "all" executable (just like the others in that directory). In it, I made a "foo" that was just another Bash script in /usr/sbin, but ...
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Init script does not create a PID file
I need to create an init script for an IRC logger. I copied /etc/init.d/skeleton. I filled in the configuration section to fit my needs and I also had to add --background to the start daemon command ...
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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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mysql replication stop/start causes duplicate rows
We're using pretty simple MASTER->SLAVE MySQL query-based replication.
Every midnight a cron script on the slave stops the replication SQL_THREAD, backs up the slaves databases with mysqldump and ...