Daemons are programs that constantly run in the background. They usually service requests. If you are asking about online services, please use a different tag.
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Lirc on upgrade to 13.04 freezes all daemons
I've been having some problems with daemons not running on boot since upgrading from 12.10 to 13.04 on my HTPC. I have narrowed the problem down to lirc. When lirc is installed and the system boots, ...
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Network device problem - Ubuntu 13.04
My Ubuntu suddenly doesn't seem to have a wifi adapter..or any network adapater actually. I noticed this after i tried to connect to my office LAN and changed set the LAN settings.
When i open ...
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How can I know if a certain service is running or not?
The service utility allows to know the current status for the services installed in the system.
However, when invocking service --status-all some services are listed as [+] (running), some as [-] ...
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How do you get an hourly talking clock for Ubuntu 12.04?
I want to get a program (a script that can be set to auto-start or something) that tells you every hour like "It's 11 o'clock."
I know it's easy on Macs, but how do you get that on Precise?
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Auto Takeover? Takeover? How to tell?
So I’ve had GREAT experiences with Linux, recently i've been questioning more if those experiences are malicious. Separate systems i have previously run seemed to be compromised via web services and ...
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How can I determine what services I had running before a new install?
Background:
want to move from 32-bit to 64-bit environment (taking advantage of >4GB RAM)
bought new HDD and installed new OS
mounted old HDD as a secondary device
Question:
How can I determine ...
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Why won't honeyd start on boot?
I have installed honeyd on my machine and configured the appropriate settings to get it to run as a service. The service will run fine and functions as expected if I start it with command:
sudo ...
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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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Turn screen off when no motion in front of webcamera
Is it possible to automatic turn screen off when there is no motion detected in front of webcamera for X minutes ?
Can i use
sudo service motion start
and
xset dpms force on/off
somehow ...
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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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My pc works at high performance due to Ubuntu 12.10 [closed]
I have a dell pc. It is have two graphics card (4100 and 7730m). I used solves on internet sites but then borders and desktop menu disappers. Sorry for bad English. Please help me!
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Leave application running as we switch users
How can I leave Deluge Bittorrent running as different family members log into and use our Ubuntu 12.04 laptop?
This seems like it should be some sort of daemon, but of course it has a GUI, which I'd ...
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Having trouble installing Ubuntu
I am trying to install Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit, but every time I try to install it, this message comes up: stopping cpu interrupts balancing daemon
It's accompanied by the screen flickering between the ...
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Startup script for spawn-fcgi
I would like to use spawn-fcgi to start a web.py application on system boot. Is there any facility for managing spawn-fcgi through Upstart? (Is Upstart the modern system for managing services, or ...
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Can I use a custom shell with upstart script stanza?
I'm writing a few daemons implemented in pure shell script and would like to use zsh(powerful substitutions, modules with socket/tcp handling, etc) instead of the default /bin/sh. Can I tell the ...
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Changing Ubuntu locale settings by GUI crashes the accounts-daemon
I'm usung Ubuntu 12.04 and after an automatic update it changed the system default encoding form UTF-8 to "ANSI_X3.4-1968". I realized that when my code comments in Eclipse appeared with strange ...
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How set hostapd to start on boot?
I set my ubuntu laptop's hostapd using this tutorial, it works well,best method I've found but the problem is on reboot where the daemon will not start,the tutorial has the part on how to set the ...
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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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declaring dependencies in upstart
It seems as if the accepted way to specify a dependency of service A on service B in upstart is to work in the reverse dependency direction: give service B a start on starting A stanza.
I'd like to ...
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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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Why does this grep command not work?
When I try to use grep in this fashion:
service --status-all | grep network
It still lists all the services even though I piped it into grep to restrict it to the "network" string only
After ...
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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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How do I change the user Transmission runs under?
I installed Transmission through a PPA and the daemon starts on boot. I want to change the user that runs the daemon because I want the downloaded files to be under the same user as my XBMC ...
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How to use PAM to restrict HTTP access for some users?
I've read that PAM can be used to restrict HTTP access for some users, but I can't figure out how to do it in Ubuntu 12.04.
The /etc/security/time.conf man page contains this example:
All users ...
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What does bamfdaemon do?
I've googled for it, and there's very little info besides "bamf matches application windows to desktop files".
Unity depends on it so it's difficut to remove, at least would be good to know what it ...
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Configuring daemontools on ubuntu
I want to supervise a process and I want a general method to work on all linux distros.
So I was adviced by varoius system administrators to use daemontools.
I installed on my Ubuntu machine using ...
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How to stop autostart sphinxsearch service? (Ubuntu)
How to stop autostart sphinxsearch service on Ubuntu?
$ sudo update-rc.d sphinxsearch disable update-rc.d: warning:
/etc/init.d/sphinxsearch missing LSB information update-rc.d: see
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Can't start, stop, or interface with SSH service
Having really bizarre behavior with ssh. I have the ssh-server running fine, configured ufw (firewall) fine as well. However, it seems I can't manage ssh as a service or through /etc/init.d/ssh.
I ...
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How to supervise and automatically restart a process?
I want to have a process which will be restarted if it crashes. I googled a bit and found that an easy solution is to use daemontools.
I didn't understand how to configure it.
What is the easiest ...
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Why is unity-files-daemon accessing my files once per day? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
All files in home folder have been accessed at (almost) same time
All my files in my home folder are accessed recursively once per day (last access timestamp is set). ...
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MySQL stop/waiting issues; “can't connect … through socket” [closed]
So first time putting up a LAMP stack on a Bodhi machine (previously experience with WAMP, and LAMP on 10.04); I got Apache going, and a Drupal install begun, then I go to create a new database and ...
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How do I keep the Ubuntu One sync daemon from automatically starting up?
I have a Windows XP VM solely for the purpose of using Quicken. I have all my documents in my home folder including the Quicken files, to which the VM sees via a Samba share.
If the Ubuntu One sync ...
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How to add startup services?
I'm on 12.10 and I use Synergy to share my mouse between my laptop and desktop monitors. I tend to start the synergys daemon manually, but I'd like for it to start automatically after boot. Now I've ...
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Where should I start crond?
On my Ubuntu server (LTS 12.04) I would like crond to be running every time I boot up. Where should I configure this? I took a look at service --status-all and saw that cron was there, but it was ...
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What happens to manual Upstart services on shut down?
If using the manual keyword in an init or override Upstart script, it is not clear whether the services shut down process will be initiated or it will just be killed on shut down.
For instance, will ...
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Should I use inetd or xinetd?
I see openbsd-inetd is installed by default but there are quite a few mentions of xinetd in AskUbuntu.
I have a custom service to install. inetd would provide all the features I need.
Should I be ...
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/var/log/cups keeps increasing while the cups service is stopped
I want to stop CUPS service on my 12.04 ubuntu:
sudo service cups stop
it's stopped. I check it's status by :
chkconfig
it's off
but /var/log/cups size is still increasing by a large amount ...
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How to disable console-kit-daemon in Xubuntu 12.10?
I just want to know how to disable console-kit-daemon in Xubuntu 12.10.
Background
In the last months I tried Ubuntu and I faced a memory error related to console-kit-daemon that spawned too much ...
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Missing LSB Information Cups
I go to do sudo update-rc.d cups disable S 2 3 4 5 and I get the following error message.
update-rc.d: warning: /etc/init.d/cups missing LSB information
update-rc.d: see ...
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How can I disable postfix on startup?
I can't get cron to stop spamming me with completed job notifications. It's getting out of hand and starting to clog up my 'real' email server, so I'd like to just disable postfix while I figure out ...
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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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How to restart the networking service without crashing Ubuntu?
I tried to use
sudo service networking restart
and
sudo /etc/init.d/network restart
but they both crash the window manager and I can no longer use my keyboard for input into X.
when I use the ...
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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 you restart a juju service?
I manually changed a config option in a juju service (alice-irc), now I want to restart it, how do I do so? I rebooted the instance figuring that would do it but no luck. I then tried running the ...
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SSH Does not start on boot [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to disable X at boot time?
I just dd the Ubuntu 12.10 Windows Installer, did the updates, and upgraded.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y upgrade
sudo apt-get -y ...
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Daemon for moving files between partitions?
I have a system with Ubuntu installed in 20GB and windows in 100 GB, two partitions - each of 100GB using NTFS. While using DC++ (multiple downloading of big file) I used to get message that system is ...
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How to manually restart services affected by apt upgrades?
How can I issue apt upgrades without automatically stopping/starting daemons? I'd like to manually restart services.
To cite a specific example:
I'll revisit a long-running machine and run sudo ...
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Stop KDE services from running
I recently installed KDE with the command sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop.
Now whenever I log into Unity I can see KDE-related services running in the background and I see no obvious way to ...
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How system services are started in 12.10?
One thing that always confused me in Ubuntu was how system services are started. I know that Ubuntu uses Upstart and supports SysV, but which one is used to start the services? This matters when you ...
