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ubuntu desktop 12.04 networking does not work on boot until I run sudo service networking restart
The problem is that every time I boot I have to run sudo service networking restart every time I boot in order to get it working. After that everything works fine.
Any ideas how I can solve this ...
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Upstart job fails to respawn and hangs when tried to stop/restart it
I'm using Upstart 1.5 in Ubuntu 12.04 to manage a process created by some user but needs to be managed as system job as starting on boot, respawning if it fails and we been able to start/stop it at ...
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Where is Unity startup script in rc?.d
I've been reading about runlevels and startup scripts lately, and I've learnt that runlevels 2 to 5 are the same in Ubuntu, and that Ubuntu's default runlevel is 2.
What I want to do
I want to ...
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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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Upstart with a script that start and finish their own processes
I'm trying to setup in Upstart a script that launch several internal procs and kill them if is required
$ listener.py -startall
$ listener.py -killall
I can run it with this settings:
# Listener ...
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Why can't we remove bluetooth service the reguler way?
The usual way to remove services from startup scripts is to remove it from starting up in the first place (man update-rc.d). Meaning removing the symbolic link to /lib/init. In this case executing ...
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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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Redirecting /dev/null to some other device
Is it possible to redirect, ie create /dev/null as non-null device, like /dev/console or /dev/stdout? This obviously has to be done before init runs create creates a standard /dev/null. Upstart seems ...
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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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Failed to use upstart to control startup dependency
In a server I have memcached and apache2 installed, I want my apache2 ONLY can start if memcached is started, so in my apache upstart script, I added the line
From
start on runlevel [2345]
To
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For processes to be up and running all the time
I want my python program sample.py to be always up and running. I have read some things and asked people about ways to do this. So far I have following options -
Upstart
Cron
I am trying things ...
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.override file isn't working
I have a file /etc/init/boinc-client.override with the single line manual that I use to prevent the BOINC client from starting up. (I don't want it hogging CPU time away from Folding@Home, for now ...
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Why my upstart script don't work?
It is strange the script use to work fine,but after the proxy went down for a while,it don't work all the time. But the command in script section can still do it's job,and I have no idea what's going ...
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How do I prevent race conditions in Upstart 'starting on' scripts?
I am working on a package that needs two Upstart jobs: one that launches a daemon, and another that launches a supporting daemon if the configuration file requires it. The logic to determine if the ...
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How do I stop all processes in a chroot?
I have a number of LVM partitions, each containing an Ubuntu installation. Occasionally, I want to do an apt-get dist-upgrade, to update an installation to the most recent packages. I do this with ...
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Customizing upstart “restart” commands
I'd like to run a different command when upstart is restarting a process than when it is starting a process. In particular, I'm using Thin and I want to do a rolling restart (built in to thin via a ...
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starting sshd on first connection to port 22 with upstart's new socket bridge
Recent Upstart has these new fancy systemd-like features of starting jobs on incoming connection via socket-bridge. I'd like to start my sshd upon first connection to port 22.
I now have:
start on ...
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Running commands on boot in 11.10
So I am getting properly confused on how to create a startup script on my Ubuntu 11.10 server. I have read about init-scripts, upstart-jobs and more, but I get even more confused the more I read.
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How do I get Upstart to start my Mediatomb service?
I've been struggling, trying to get my Mediatomb server to start automatically on Upstart run level 2. I can't figure it out. I guess Upstart is still new to me and I don't understand it. I even ...
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How to start jenkins?
I installed jenkins via sudo apt-get install jenkins. However, it doesn't start up. Tried to start it manually using sudo /etc/init.d/jenkins start. But it says this message when I try to start it ...
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1answer
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Upstart scripting: Start service and immediately run another command
Here is my current Upstart script I've placed at /etc/init/redis.conf:
description "redis server"
start on runlevel [2345]
stop on shutdown
exec sudo /opt/redis/redis-server /opt/redis/redis.conf
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/dev/mapper/cryptsetup1 is not ready yet or not present, slow system [closed]
Today I had a very high system load because I used many applications at the same time (VirtualBox, totem, firefox,...). The load was so high, that the system almost didn't react anymore. Then I killed ...
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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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Upstart script doesn't start
Ubuntu 10.04
I have created this upstart script (/etc/init/pure-ftpd.conf):
# pure-ftpd - FTP server
description "Pure-FTPd server"
start on filesystem
stop on runlevel S
respawn
respawn limit ...
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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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What's the recommended way to enable / 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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1answer
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How to set up Java-based services for startup?
What's the best way to set up a Java-based program to run an service and start on boot?
upstart (pre-start script and post-stop script ?)
plain old SysV init? (start-stop-daemon ?)
In my case I am ...
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1answer
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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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2answers
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How do I setup gunicorn?
Upstart doesn't like to start gunicorn because it tries to call setpgrp (see github issue), what would be the best way to start [gunicorn] on a 10.04.1 server install? - Ideally with automatic ...
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