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CloudFormation: Trying to download and run script using UserData [closed]
Using CloudFormation, I'm trying use UserData to download a script from another instance in my AWS environment and execute it during instance creation/update. The troublesome part of my template is ...
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Can memcache invoke a script to reload itself after startup on Ubuntu?
Since memcache stores everything in ram, it will lose its store after a node recovers from failure. Does memcache offer a hook to invoke a script after it starts up? We want that script to do ...
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View User's current logon script without domain admin rights
Is there a way to view which logon script is running for an AD user without having domain admin rights.
I've tried gpresult and it isn't displaying any login/logoff scripts, but I believe the script ...
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LSB confirm startup script won't start apache tomcat on ubuntu
I want to start my tomcat server automatically on startup. Therefore I retrieved a simple LSB conform script from the net and modified it to my needs. This is the script:
# Provide logging functions ...
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Startup script on one server only in Amazon EC2
Right now I have a setup with a load balancer that starts new instances of a server (debian) if needed be on the Amazon EC2 cloud. On this setup I have a script that needs to be running on only one of ...
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Trouble using update-rc.d to change Debian startup order
I have a Debian Wheezy system on which I want Tomcat to start after MySQL.
In the default runlevel 2, they are named as follows in /etc/rc2.d:
S16tomcat7
S18mysql
I can get the desired effect, at ...
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Is it safe to remove the Bash Shell startup files for Samba user accounts?
I'm in the process of setting up Samba shares for a SOHO network and would like to know whether or not it is safe/advisable to remove a Samba user's Bash Shell startup files (i.e. .bash_logout, ...
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Apache and MySQL doesn't start at boot
I am running Debian 6 on a server. On this server I want to have an instance of Apache2 and MySQL started when the system boots.
For this purpose I know there are the init.d script and the symbolic ...
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Startup services are not getting started in CENTOS
I deployed my project on a Shared Hosting that has Root access the Server in picture is CENTOS
now although I have defined the service to start on boot it not getting started
chkconfig --level 35 ...
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Why is my Cloudformation script not starting apache?
I'm trying to create an instance to run apache, and everything seems to be working, but the web server is not being started.
It starts up fine manually. If I reboot the instance, it does not ...
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Filtering GPO's Based on Computer Account Security Group
So, I have a GPO, which runs a quick start up script to delete locally installed IP printers from all machines on our AD domain during computer start up. This works great...the issue appears when we ...
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Starting a service only after another one is completely started (on CentOS)
I have installed on my CentOS server postgresql service and another one called netnfork. The 'netnfork' service starts only after postgresql starts.
netnfork init script:
#!/bin/sh
#
# netnfork init
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Windows 2008 startup script will not run?
I am trying to get a very simple batch script to run when my Windows 2008 Server (R2) system starts up. I have added the script to the "Startup Scripts" in the local group policy by running ...
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Thin configuration doesn't start on boot, but they do on manual start [closed]
I have some thin config files (generated with sudo thin install) which are slightly modified (only paths where they're located).
I can start them just fine with /etc/init.d/thin start, but if the ...
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Permanently change hostname of Debian Squeeze virtual server
I have a virtual server running Debian Squeeze. I can change the hostname by running the hostname new.host.name command or by editing /etc/hostname and then running /etc/init.d/hostname.sh, but after ...
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Execute specific bash script on Gentoo Linux startup
I own a VDS running Gentoo Linux and I am curious about how to execute specific bash script at startup of my VDS.
I just want to startup apache2 at boot time and run two thin instances.
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Starting a pppoe connection through /network/interfaces
I recently moved and have a computer I desire to use instead of going out and buying a new router. I have tried to follow many tutorials on the internet but there is always one part they miss out on.
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Deploy multiple office products using startup scripts
I need to deploy MS Visio 2010 and MS Project 2010 to users that belong to a specific security group. Most of the time users will only need one or the other, but on occasion they will need both. The ...
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Execute script from rc.local as user instead of root
I want to execute a script every time my server start up. The problem is that I need to be a certain user to execute the script, if I try to do it as root it cant find certain packages (such as ruby).
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init is the parent for a script: how can I find what initially launched the script?
The box in question is RHEL/CentOS 5.5 x86_64. It has been up for 80+ days.
A custom watchdog script exists on the server which performs a variety of tasks and this particular script accepts a few ...
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Chroot on startup
I have a script that runs on startup, but it wont launch a application in chroot.
#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/chroot /root/chrootdir/ /bin/sh -c "lighttpd -f /etc/lighttpd.conf -m /lib"
echo "script ...
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Can't create a working init.d for Apache 2.4.2 on CentOS
I built apache 2.4.2 on CentOS from source and now am trying to create an init.d script to go along with it. A friend gave me one script but it never outputted a success or fail and I disliked it. I ...
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startup script not executing on amazon linux
i'm trying to forward syslog to logentries.com which requires a line added to /etc/rsyslog.conf , so far so good. however, i'm running on amazon elastic beanstalk and have 3 environments ...
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Can a GPO Startup Script starts a background process and exit immediately?
I have Googled, and not yet found an answer.
Scenario: One of my GPOs have a Startup Script that takes a long time to finish. For some reasons, we have to run the scripts synchronously. Naturally, ...
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Uninstalling software via startup script in AD
There is an antivirus package that exists on most of our machines that needs to be removed. I did not deploy this software and it was not deployed via GPO - it was installed manually by the previous ...
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Office 2007 Installer Not Logging When Run During Startup Script
I'm using a startup script to deploy Microsoft Office 2007 Standard. It's not working quite right and I'm trying to find logging information for it. Unfortunately, no log is being generated by setup. ...
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Process in rc.local does not seem to run — where to see?
I want to run a process in rc.local (Ubuntu Natty) but I am having trouble determining if it has run. I added
/bin/sleep 10
/usr/bin/killall PassengerWatchdog
/bin/echo "Killall returned with code ...
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Run unison in background on startup?
I'm running Debian 6 64bit.
What I'm trying to do is run Unison on startup to constantly monitor files on the LAMP server I have running on my VM and sync that with the VM Shared folder.
while true
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Update saved password for basic authentication using a script
I have a website that uses basic authentication as described on this webpage.
Each of the computers I manage have the password saved in their browser.
There is only one username and password for ...
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Windows 2003 DC GPO Asking for Password on Startup
Simple answer I am sure...I an trying to deploy Office 2010 to clients via the GPO startup script but am having issues. Soon as the computer starts, it prepares network connections then goes on to ...
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Is it possible to embed TCL directly into a Cisco startup-config?
Is it possible to embed TCL directly into a Cisco startup-config? From the (lack of) information I'm finding, it doesn't look do-able.
I have a tool that generates Cisco configurations based on some ...
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control which version of PostgreSQL starts
I have three versions of Postgres (8.4, 9.0, 9.1) running on my Ubuntu box. Each version is configured to listen on a different port. When I reboot the machine, only the 9.0 version starts ...
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Windows : Only Run Install Startup Script if Directory Doesn't Exist
I want to install some programs via a startup script, but once it has run for the first time it'll just reinstall wasting time and overwriting. It's a Server 2008 R2.
Somewhere I found this
IF NOT ...
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Group Policy Startup Script Not Working
I have a startup script on my server that is suppose to run at startup and install Office 2010 on my workstation computer however it is not working. Running rsop.msc it shows that the startup script ...
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Login/Startup Scripts Not working
My test network setup is as follows.
A Windows 2008 R2 Server acting as a DC (AD, DNS, DHCP) it is on its own vlan (10.20.99.0/24).
I then Have two XP test computers each on there own vlan ...
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How do I register a user logon script using PowerShell?
My company manufactures a medical instrument and the software that runs on it. Under the hood, it's got a PC running Windows 7. I'm developing a process so that untrained technicians can configure the ...
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Exactly HOW are machine start-up Group Policies processed and what is required?
We have Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Enterprise.
I'm asking this because we have several hundred laptops and netbooks at our organization. We do'nt have a NAC or a RADIUS server so all the wireless ...
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Running Script on EC2 Boot
I want to mount my EBS volume and start up the Apache/MySQL servers on my EC2 machine, but I can't even get my script to run at startup.
I've tried putting it in:
/etc/init.d/
/etc/rc.d/rc5.d/
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How can I set environment variables when I ssh login to my Unix box by passing custom arguments?
I want to pass some parameters as part of my ssh connection that I can use to set custom variables for my login to do certain things or run certain scripts. How do you do this running Putty on Windows ...
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unrealircd run at boot
I have UnrealIRCD installed on my CentOS server. I'm not too familiar with startup scripts, so I'm wondering if it's possible to have it start when the vps starts up, or if it crashes, as well as ...
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EC2 startup script?
We're using Amazon's 32-bit Linux AMI. What is the best way to automatically run a script after the OS is loaded (not on ssh login, just after it has booted up)?
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Group policy startup script needs elevated priviledges
I have a script that I want to run at startup but that requires elevated priviledges. Is there a way of doing this with Group Policy?
I tried adding it in as a startup script using GPO but it ...
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Best way to tag/identify processes for killing them later?
In my linux startup scripts, when I start a process like (openvpn used for this example, but the question is general to any process);
openvpn --config /etc/myserver.conf
what is the best way to ...
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How to set Firefox as default browser using a script?
I have windows server 2008 r2 enterprise and windows 7 machines. I have firefox 4.0.1 currently deploying through group policy to the windows 7 machines.
I know how to create a login script. I have ...
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Getting Xvfb to start upon booting system in Ubuntu Maverick
I'm trying to get Xvfb to run when the system starts up on Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick), but it's not working. In /etc/rc.local, I have the following:
/root/start_xvfb.sh >> ...
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What are best practices writing parallel startup scripts in Unix shell (ksh,bash)?
I have a piece of software with different components running on the same Unix machine (web server, DBMS, middleware, different daemons). Startup of the few components depends on the success of the ...
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Need a script that runs every OSX server restarts
I need to run a script every time my OSX server (10.5.8) the server restarts. The closest I could find was to add the script to my login items but this would only apply to one use and I need this ...
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Spawned Process Terminated in GP Startup Script
I have a Group Policy Startup Script which runs synchronously. I now need this script to run one process asynchronously. So far I have managed to get the spawned process running via the command below, ...
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GPO startup script not copying files
I created a GPO startup script to execute for computers in a specific AD container. The script takes a file from the AD netlogon share and places it on a directory on the computer. Given the right ...
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Start Linux scripts sequentially with blocking
I want to create a script to start two different scripts in sequence.
The first script start an application server, which although the process has started (and i'm back at the prompt), it will only ...
