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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dockerd does not start debian
Linux OS: debian11
Everything worked, but I think today after sudo apt upgrade I installed new version of docker.
Then docker daemon does not start:
$ sudo systemctl start docker
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Unit shutdown.service could not be found
I'm trying to set up in a Redhat server, 2 services that start a database at startup, and stop it at shutdown, so I have put 2 files under /etc/systemd/system as follows:
shutdown.service:
[Unit]
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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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OSX How to prevent user unload a daemon?
I'm working in a task to keep Mac application is always alive. I'm success to create a plist file to make app respawn when user force quite app from Dock or kill process from Activity Monitor
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Cannot kill redis server. It restarts every time I kill it
I cannot kill redis-server no matter how many times I've tried.
ps -ef | grep redis-server gives
root 10592 1 0 01:10 ? 00:00:00 /snap/redis/658/usr/bin/redis-server *:6379
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Warning: atop.service changed on disk. Run 'systemctl daemon-reload' to reload units [closed]
I was trying to change the atop log interval on CentOS 7 cPanel server from 600 to 60 seconds and tried editing the file /etc/system/system/multi-user.target.wants/atop.service (Environment="...
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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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How to monitor memory usage continuously with Linux?
I have a daemon service application runing a Ubuntu server(20.04.1).
The total phisical memory is 2G, and the swap space is 4G.
Sometime my service was killed by OS quietly, eventhough I add ...
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thousands of systemctl unit named "/run/docker/runtime-runc/moby/....../runc....." in system
We are running k8s on SUSE. In some node, I found thousands of system units like this:
sudo systemctl list-units --all | egrep "run-docker-runtime.*loaded.*inactive.*dead"
run-docker-...
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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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How to stop the swatchdog scipt running in the background?
Under Ubuntu 20 I have installed Swatchdog and started five daemon processes (running in the background).
Now I wanted to stop the script, so I used apt-get remove swatch.
However, as I could notice, ...
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Docker daemon ignores daemon.json on boot
My Docker Daemon seems to ignore /etc/docker/daemon.json on boot.
Similar to this question, I'm having some troubles telling the Docker daemon that it should not use the default 172.17.* range. That ...
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How do I find the PID file for a process given the PID number?
I'm trying to use Monit to monitor and send email alerts about a process when it stops running, but I need the location of the PID file for that process. I can find the PID number using the htop or ps ...
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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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Setting up Auto-restarting php daemon
I have a php script with an environment variable from Fuelphp that I run with a command like FUEL_ENV=production php oil run task however, I'd like it to run as a daemon that will automatically ...
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Configure a server program to restart after crash
I have a web service that runs on Linux. Is there a conventional way to ensure the server is restarted in the event of a crash?
I suppose I might have a shell script which does something like this:
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screen inside systemd daemon on CentOS 8
So I want to run screen inside a systemd service so that I can give the process (inside the daemon) commands while it is running. See at the end of the question for examples of what I want be be able ...
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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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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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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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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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Docker daemon seems to ignore no_proxy configuration
I'm trying to setup a docker daemon behind a corporate proxy (e.g. http://proxy.domain.name:3128) and want the daemon to ignore the proxy when pulling images from a local registry (e.g. registry....
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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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monit reload - how to know when it is finished?
I have this requirement to add services to monit dynamically. So what I am doing is copying the service monit file to /etc/monit.d/ (which is included in /etc/monitrc) and reloading monit.
cp <...
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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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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:
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Java daemon keeps failing due to FileInputStreamException for config files outside its jar package
I want to implement a Java application as a daemon / service that runs on my Raspberry Pi with standard Debian Stretch (Kernel version 4.9).
The java application starts but then throws an exeption ...
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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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Rsync with rsync daemon is not preserving owners or groups
I am setting up a new internal backup strategy where multiple hosts on my LAN will be backed up to a single host running the rsync daemon.
I am still in the early stages of this, backing up a ...
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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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Haproxy two processes are created by systemd
I have just compiled the latest Haproxy.
[root@proxy system]# haproxy -v
HA-Proxy version 1.8.8 2018/04/19
Copyright 2000-2018 Willy Tarreau <willy@haproxy.org>
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Autostart/restart program simply with daemontools in debian 9 [closed]
For example make vlc start and play a video full screen on boot.
After working this out here it is:
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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 to hide a password from ps, if it's given to a process via script or command line
So I have a certain program, which is running almost 24/7.
I have a start script I've written in bash which simply does:
./app --user XXX --pass YYY
There are a few more options, but they are ...
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journalctl only refreshing after restarting systemd service?
I have a systemd service with gunicorn. I have a print statement in a function.Problem is that, journalctl does not show the print output when i call the function but it shows the output after ...
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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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How to turn a script into a daemon? So that upon a random script failure it is restarted by the kernel?
I have a script which streams important logs from another system.
Unfortunately the machines are separated by a large distance which means that the connection between them can be poor.
How to deal ...
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How to capture details of an aborted process into a logfile
A daemon is started and running under Debian until it randomly crashes. I found out that it sometimes aborts due to an assertion which is shown if the process is running in foreground, like:
/usr/...
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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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Setting a domain as primary for the mailer daemon in postfix/dovecot
I currently have two domains set on my server on two different IPs. One is set on the domain's primary IP, and the second on a failover IP. Let's say I have domain1.com and domain2.com
Currently, the ...
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nohup daemon process dies when terminal is close
I'm trying to copy the contents of a remote server to my local computer. Here is the command that I'm using:
nohup rsync -chavP -e 'ssh -p 23' --stats user@ipaddress:~/great/stuff /volume1/code > ~...
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