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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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Rc.local does not execute

I am PXE booting some Ubuntu machines in a cluster. All of a sudden my rc.local script has stopped working. I've check the permission of /etc/rc.local: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1087 Jan 14 11:04 ...
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How do I delay Upstart's net-device-up signal until a condition is met?

I need to wait for a specific condition to be met a network interface is considered "up". Upstart is sending its net-device-up signal before this condition is met, which cases the scripts that depend ...
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Start command doesn't return for upstart script in Ubuntu?

I have written an upstart script called 'ts.conf' for a daemon and put it in /etc/init. When I try to start it with start ts I expect a confirmation message and I also expect to get the prompt ...
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How to user interact during boot using upstart? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Upstart script: Detect shift key down at boot I want to add a question during boot. The user is supposed to make keyboard inputs and depending on those inputs, there is ...
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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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Starting a service from /etc/event.d works, but not from /etc/init

I'm trying to launch an upstart service on Ubuntu 8.04 from /etc/init/, but I always get start: Unknown job: job. When I try to launch this script from /etc/event.d/ it works fine. Why would this be ...
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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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Upstart, one job definition to start and one to stop

Hi i just discoverd ubuntu upstart (etc/init/* scripts). And i would like to use it to run a particular application. This app is run via a command line, but there is an argument to start an instance ...