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Start and stop parameters in init script

I have .conf a file in /etc/init/ with this code at the bottom: start on (started network-interface or started network-manager or started networking) stop on (stopping ...
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Need to know what program is writing to the console on start, logout and shutdown

I would like to know what program is responsible for writing messages to the console during the start, logout and shutdown process. What I'm referring to is that black console that comes out and spews ...
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Console prompt during boot (for truecrypt)

In short: Please provide me with a up-to-date best practice solution to mount my Truecrypt volumes at boot with secure password prompt! I may accept a answer that has nothing to do with Truecrypt and ...
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Help setting up e4rat, no startup.log after e4rat-collect

So I've scanned through all the wiki's and posts to no avail. I'm attempting to set up e4rat on Ubuntu 12.10, and after appending init=/sbin/e4rat-collect to Grub and changing ro to rw startup.log is ...
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Ubuntu way to run sysctl -p on each boot?

I made some changes to sysctl.conf but now need to run sysctl -p on each boot. I can always create an init script to have it run automatically on boot, but I was wondering if there was an Ubuntu / ...
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Why I cannot find in /etc/inittab? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: where is inittab file? I have learned from the wikipedia that init is usually called by the kernel with an argument to specify the runlevel, in order to do different ...
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X : conditional xorg.conf file during startup

I've got a computer which I use at a couple of different sites, and I've got differen monitors at those sites. What I've done is that I've ceated different xorg.conf files for each of these sites. ...
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Scripts slowing boot

Inspired by the "How fast" video, I've recently been trying to speed up my boot up as much as possible. I've been reading many forums on different approaches but I've recently hit a wall with a ...
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How can I make fsck run non-interactively at boot time?

I have a headless Ubuntu 12.04 server in a datacenter 1500 miles away. Twice now on reboot the system decided it had to fsck. Unfortunately Ubuntu ran fsck in interactive mode, so I had to ask someone ...
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Ubuntu doesn't boot after apt-get upgrade (black screen) [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it? Some time ago (2 weeks) I ran apt-get upgrade. When complete I turned off the computer. I was on ...
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init error, laptop do not boot

I turned my computer on and it comes up with ways to boot and I clicked Ubuntu with linux 2.6.38-13-generic. There was a recovery mode too. Once I clicked its writing come up: init: udevtrigger main ...
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Cannot boot because: Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

This is what I've got. I cannot boot and I see the two of three little lights on the keyboard blinking all the time and the cooling is working on full power, almost. I saw in other askubuntu topic ...
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On 10.04 Lucid, how can I add a script to startup to run as another user?

On 10.04 Lucid, how can I add a script to run at startup as another user? Will I add a script someplace like /etc/init.d/myscript ? Or is it better to put it in the cron file for root as @reboot and ...
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Kernel panic at boot with BusyBox and init error messages [closed]

How do I reboot my computer? A friend of mine started my computer over from scratch, then installed Ubuntu on my computer. But, when my computer ran out of power and I charged it, the computer ...
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Restore Ubuntu after power outage [closed]

the problem is after short power outage I'm getting message like "gave up waiting for root device. Alert! /dev/disk/by-uuid/{long_guid_} does not exists. Dropping to a shell". How do I fix it? ubuntu ...
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How to write an init script that will execute an existing start script?

I'm trying to understand the init process. I have a script which launches 3 background processes (2 shell scripts and a java app). It works just fine from the command line. I'd like to execute that ...
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Decrease Boot Time [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Improve Boot time I have an 11.10 system that takes a while to boot. I ran bootchart and it reported that there was a block of time about 10 seconds long where there was ...
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Where can I find information or description of the boot up process?

I am looking for links to detailed information on how the ubuntu boot process is managed after grub is finished. I have googled by all the documentation referes to individual packages. (upstart, ...
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Booting ubuntu gives “init not found”

My friend has been using ubuntu 10.10 on vmware player for many days now. But today, it has a problem booting, so we started the ubuntu live cd to try and fix it. Running sudo fsck /dev/sda1 (got ...
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Boot problem after upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04 [closed]

I just did system upgrade form 9.10 to 10.04 using alternate CD described here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LucidUpgrades#Upgrading%20Using%20the%20Alternate%20CD/DVD - I did it this way because ...
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How can I make sure one Upstart job starts before other Upstart jobs?

This is a general Upstart question, but let me use a specific case: Centrify is a NIS to ActiveDirectory gateway. It needs to load before any service that will depend the authentication service that ...
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Days-old but won't boot (missing /sbin/init) - help!

I installed 10.10 a few days ago. The only changes to the default install are the addition of Chrome and Pinta. It was fine for a few days, then today login etc seemed slow. Likewise it couldn't even ...
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Why does mysql process starts on boot?

As you can see, mysql exists only in the /etc/init.d directory and not in /etc/rcN.d, therefore it shouldn't start on boot. $ sudo find /etc -regex ".*\(rc.*d\|init\.d\).*" | sudo grep "mysql" | sort ...
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How to do a clean reinstall of initramfs

I was getting the error mentioned in this post on Ubuntu 10.04. I upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10 through software update and again I'm getting this error. mount: mounts none on /dev/pts failed: Device ...
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init premount script error from dropbear

I get the following error at early boot stage: ipconfig: eth0: SIOCGIFINDEX: No such device ipconfig: no devices to configure /scripts/init-premount/dropbear: .: line 32: can't open ...