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transmission-daemon: error loading working config-file. User priveliges?
Transmission-daemon has worked perfectly on a small headless server for a long time. However, it currently gives me the following error:
transmission-daemon Error loading config file -- exiting. ...
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How to make ubuntu service run as specific user
How to make ubuntu service run as specific user?
I created an init.d script and make it start at boot, but sooner I found the service is running as root after reboot.
I google and google, people ...
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alternative of “chkconfig” command in Ubuntu 12.04 or lower
How to use chkconfig --list in Ubuntu .
It's asking for install this but I don't have privilege to install any package on the server and have to fix the issue.
As I am working with redhat/Centos, but ...
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How do I enable the CardDAV server of the calendarserver package?
I installed the calendarserver package which provided me with a working instance of the Darwin Calendar and Contacts Server, a CalDAV and CardDAV server.
The CalDAV part seems to be working okay. I ...
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Mongodb shell is giving an error while connecting?
When you try to connect to mongodb it is giving a following error:
root@ip-10-87-37-28:~# mongo
MongoDB shell version: 2.0.4
connecting to: test
Fri Mar 8 07:40:11 Error: couldn't connect to server ...
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vsftpd issue when restarting
I am working with Ubuntu 10.4 and I installed vsftpd without problems.
However, when trying to restart the service by executing the following command to apply new configuration from my vsftpd.conf ...
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Allow non-sudo group to control Upstart job
I'm trying to set up an Upstart job to run on system startup, and that can also be started/stopped by members of a group other than sudo. With a previous version, I usedupdate-rc.d and scripts stored ...
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Mount ecryptfs automatically after ftp login
How can I get my ubuntu server 12.04 to automatically mount the encrypted home partition after an ftp login? It will automatically mount after an ssh login and I can then access the encrypted ...
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How do I choose which way to enable/disable, start/stop, or check the status of a service?
If I want to start a system installed service, I can do:
# /etc/init.d/some-svc start
# initctl start some-svc
# service some-svc start
# start some-svc
If I want to disable a service from running ...
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Plex media server doesn't run after fresh install
After adding the ppa and apt-getting plexmediaserver, it briefly said something like "running media server". Then disappeared.
root@host:/etc# ps aux |grep -i plex
root 8757 0.0 0.3 4192 ...
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Having tried differen ways but none worked - How do I disable a service from auto-start at boot in Ubuntu?
This really doesn't make sense. I've been using many other distros and never had such difficulty managing autostart services.
I found three ways of disabling autostart services, and none of them ...
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Dropbox service not starting automatically after kernel upgrade
I upgraded a kernel on my 64bit 12.04 server and now the Dropbox service is not launching after the reboot. I can still start it manually by:
sudo service dropbox start
I was using the instructions ...
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What is the difference between “service restart” and “service reload”
I'm trying to understand the difference between service restart [someservice] and service reload [someservice]. I understand that "restart" restarts the service whereas "reload" reloads the ...
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SSH Daemon does not autostart
I use a VPS with Ubuntu 10.04. After I performed "apt-get upgrade", the ssh daemon stopped working and does not automatically start when I restart my server. I have only access to files (edit, create ...
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Is there any GUI for server management for Ubuntu which is not web based?
I'm very comfortable using the command line and I run Ubuntu Server on my own home server. Though I feel that Ubuntu Server really lacks the ease of use and friendliness that the Windows Server 2008 ...
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Upstart not running my dynamic DNS script
I have a dynamic DNS script as follows:
#!/bin/bash
curl -kL# "http://example.com/updatedns.php"
echo $? >> /var/log/ddns
...saved to /usr/local/bin/ddns. Obviously the URL above isn't the ...
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how can I start an other xserver on a different terminal so that I have two xservers running at the same time.
In reference to the question Alt+tab out of full screen game
With the answer:
Start an other xserver on a different terminal. say tty8. Then switch between them when
running the game in full ...
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Why service munin-node does not run at start up (reboot)?
I have a VPS instance running Ubuntu Server version 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx).
I have installed munin and munin-node. It is properly configured. It is working fine.
The problem is that I need to run ...
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Can i move the /var folder without having to reboot?
I run a headless ubuntu server from a usb drive, and to minimize writes I want to move the /var folder to a different drive.
The problem is that all other drives are encrypted, and become avaliable ...
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How do I set up a service?
I have a script that I would like to run as a service on my Ubuntu Server 11.04 headless box. That is, I want to have the correct files under /etc/init.d/ and to be able to control it via the service ...
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Interact with Minecraft Server
I have a Minecraft sever running that gets started automatically using the init.d scripts. Now I want to be able to give myself admin privileges but I need to send commands to the server. How can I ...
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SVN server only allows commits when run as root
So as of two days ago, i had myself a shiny new SVN server. I set it up for WebDAV with no problems. It wasn't until i tried to host multiple projects that i ran into trouble.
At first, i had all of ...
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Disable autostart for a service without uninstalling?
How can I disable autostart for a service without uninstalling? For example, I'd like to leave tomcat installed, but I don't want it turning on every time I restart.
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Running PHP-CLI server
Good day everyone,
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 ...
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How to correctly add a custom daemon to init.d?
I've got a 3-rd party proprietary application server daemon which can be started and stopped by couple of command lines. I need this daemon to start when the system starts up and correctly stopped on ...
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How to remove the Sendmail Mail Server from webmin?
I mean to remove the Sendmail Mail Server on webmin, any idea how to remove it? Thanks.
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How do you restart Apache?
I switched from SLES to Ubuntu and now I want to restart my local server.
In SLES I used :
rcapache2 restart
but this somehow seems not to work in Ubuntu. :(
How do i restart my Apache?
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Chkconfig alternative for Ubuntu Server?
I've become very accustomed to managing service startups on Redhat/RHEL platforms using chkconfig though that doesn't appear to be the Debian/Ubuntu way - How do I update runlevel information for ...
