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Hide desktop startup screen
I am working on a hardware device running on Ubuntu. One of the most important features is good presentation - in my case not showing the OS startup screen etc. Currently I am using upstart to start ...
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What are ALL the autostart locations in ubuntu?
im a ubuntu newbie in need of some advice from anyone very familular with the different ubuntu startup methodologies.
im interested in enumerating all the applications that are triggered at startup ...
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Am I using upstart correctly?
I'm trying to write a startup script for my Ubuntu 12.04 desktop that pings my Netgear router every 30 seconds (this is necessary as a nasty workaround for a separate problem I'm having). I read this ...
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Startup script doesn't execute at startup
I have followed the tutorial here that shows how to setup the No-ip update program to start at system startup.
I have done exactly as specified here, yet the program still doesn't start. Also, when I ...
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Has behaviour of upstart changed in 13.04
I have an upstart conf that mounts a remote nfs at startup. Previously (in 12.10) it used
start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE=eth0)
in 13.04 this no longer works - I tried all ...
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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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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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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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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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Squid3 fails to start on boot
Squid3 does not start automatically on boot, in some cases. I have start it manually with sudo service squid3 start.
Any reason why?
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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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Is init.d “safe” enough to use or should i use `runit` or `daemontools` on a server
I am looking to deploy my application on a server on which I would have no access in the future. I would like to have an indication of start-up errors generated by my program in particular and the ...
