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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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Init.d script gets return code 1 when calling itself, how can I get output?
My question is, how can I modify the script so that it will tell me what goes wrong?
The scenario is this:
I'm trying to get Sonatype Nexus to start as a service in Ubuntu 10.04, and it just will ...
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Create a service in linux using shell script
I want to create a service in linux as we do in windows. which i can start or stop with help of a script. the service has to launch a gaming application which has some dependencies associated with it.
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Have a parameter applied to service for Upstart
I want to run my webcit service with the -f option, how do I put that in the service script (/etc/init.d/webcit)?
The lines that look relevant are:
RUNDIR=/var/run/webcit
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Upstart script for a transmission-daemon executed as a normal user
I have done a script to start transmission-daemon as a normal user:
start on filesystem
stop on runlevel [!2345]
respawn
respawn limit 10 5
pre-start script
test -x /usr/bin/transmission-daemon ...
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How can I make a script that opens terminal windows and executes commands in them?
I have three scripts I need to run when I start up my Ubuntu machine, they start services I use in my development environment.
To do that, I manually open three terminals and type in the commands.
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Setting the owner of the file created by start-stop-daemon output redirection
I have the following line in do_start() of my custom init script that starts a java application:
start-stop-daemon --background --start --quiet --oknodo --make-pidfile --pidfile $PIDFILE --chdir ...
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Custom daemon script: works, but does not run at boot / startup
this is Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick.
I have the following shell script in init.d that I want to run as a "daemon" (background service with start/stop/restart really) at system startup. There is a symlink ...
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Getting a script to run on boot, not on login
How can I get a specific script to run (preferably not as superuser) whenever the machine boots, but before login. It can be the last thing to run on boot. I mostly just want the script to work even ...
