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service vs. initctl [duplicate]
Why are some deamons run out of service and some out of initctl? Do both tools do the same thing and it is just a matter of personal preference of the user what they will use?
E.g.
sudo service --...
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What is the difference between jobs and services? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What's the difference between “Service” and “/etc/init.d/”?
So what are the differences between jobs that are located in /etc/init/, which I call ...
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Diffrence between /etc/init.d/ssh start and service ssh start [duplicate]
Please clear my doubt Diffrence between /etc/init.d/ssh start and service ssh start.
which is the best to use service command or /etc/init.d/.
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How to enable or disable services?
I read about how to enable and disable services in Ubuntu and it seems that there are different possibilities to manage them.
The first method I found is update-rc.d to add new services to startup, ...
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command not running in rc.local but works in terminal
My entire rc.local file
#!/bin/sh -e
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# rc.local
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# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# value on error....
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Mysql didn't startup after rebooting
After I rebooted my server, everything started up normally except for "mysql", i tried to start it up manually "/etc/init.d/mysql restart" or with "service mysql restart", it fails
In log file it ...
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Running PHP-CLI server
I recently got interested in the WebSocket technology. I built myself a server using PHP which I ran on Windows using the PHP CLI. That was fine for development, but now I need to think about ...
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Unable to connect to X11 display. is $DISPLAY set? - Yes, it is
I'm trying to run this in my /etc/init.d/rc.local. I had to manually add the exit 0 because it wasn't there by default if that makes any difference.
cd /home/john/xcape && ./xcape -e '...
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Where does Gunicorn come from in `service gunicorn restart`?
When I pip freeze, I do not see Gunicorn. I am wondering where Gunicorn comes from when I run service gunicorn restart/stop. And what is service's relationship with Upstart?
Thanks.
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I now ...
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Two different ways of starting a service. Why?
What are the differences between the two following ways or starting something, first being:
/etc/init.d/redis-server start
And second:
/usr/bin/redis-server
I've never really fully understood why ...