Upstart is an event-based replacement for the /sbin/init daemon which handles starting of tasks and services during boot, stopping them during shutdown and supervising them while the system is running.
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Upstart job: Run task once per event
I'm a little confused regarding how jobs start on Upstart events. To illustrate my misunderstanding, I have four Upstart jobs that look like the following:
Job 1:
start on local-filesystems
task
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How to start up rsyslog automatically?
Check current status of rsyslog
$ chkconfig --list rsyslog
rsyslog 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
Start up rsyslog at some levels
$ sudo chkconfig --level 35 ...
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Upstart and core files
I have an upstart job that occasionally crashes with a segmentation fault, and I have a few questions about core dumps.
First, should I add a stanza:
limit core unlimited unlimited
Is there a ...
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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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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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Using Upstart like old fashion init script
How can I use Upstart and have the same we use to have by using "# Should-Start:" at the BEGIN INIT INFO of the init script?
Is it there any way I can tailor the "start on started" based on a ...
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Systemd is installed on Ubuntu Raring?
Systemd appears to be installed in Ubuntu Raring. What does it provide that upstart doesn't provide? Why is it there? I thought Ubuntu was keeping upstart.
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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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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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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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How to check if openvpn is connected in Upstart?
I need to run a script after mysql and openvpn are started (Ubuntu for ARM).
I can succesfully run the script with upstart with this .conf:
# my upstart for logging boot
start on (starting openvpn ...
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Upstart conf changes do not reload after edit
After I make some changes to an upstart conf file upstart does not reload the new changes until I reboot the system
start on filesystem or runlevel [23]
stop on runlevel [6]
respawn
expect fork
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Postgresql - configuring as Upstart job problem
I need Postgresql configured to start with the Upstart system because i use Upstarts events to start another app which depends on pgsql to be running. This is the tutorial/script i've used:
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Why my upstart script doesn't run?
I don't understant why my script is not running. Here is what I did (I'm using Ubuntu 10.04).
I wrote a mountFTP.conf script:
description "Mount the remote FTP for sync"
start on started tty1
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Apache doesnt start after upgrade to 12.10
during the upgrade process I was wondered for "replace init.d", and I said "keep", not replace. Now, apache2 is not working. I tried removing and upgrading again, but doesnt start.
I have this error ...
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AutoSSH for a robust tunnel
I'm trying to start an ssh tunnel from A to B and have it run despite things like: period network/wifi drops on A and remote server reboot on B. My ssh tunnel starts using upstart script on A with ...
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Is there an ncurses tool for upstart similar to ntsysv or sysv-rc-conf?
I'd like to be able to use a terminal or console to configure runlevels. I don't need the conditions for starting and stopping services to be any more complicated than sysv. I just want to base ...
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Quickly stop all network services except sshd (or boot with only sshd running)
I have an Ubuntu Server 12.04 box acting as a home file server. At times I would like to be able to brings down all my normal network services (nfs-kernel-server and friends, netatalk, nmbd, smbd, ...
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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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apport package hook for 3rd-party package not being called
I have a proprietary package, installed via a .deb file. The package provides an upstart script which uses the respawn stanza - i.e. the executable gets restarted when it is killed, even with a ...
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Why are there start 'S' symlinks in rc0.d (shutdown) and rc6.d (reboot)?
Start 'S' symlinks in shutdown and restart runlevels?
Why are there 'S00-S99' start symlinks in rc0.d and rc6.d? Ubuntu 13.04 directory listing:
$ ls -l /etc/init.d/rc6.d
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root ...
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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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nothing is written in a file created from a upstart job
I have a program in /home/me/bin/foo, typically compiled from :
// includes
...
#define PATHNAME "/home/me/bin/bar.txt"
int main ()
{
FILE* f;
f = fopen(PATHNAME, "wb"); // I skip the possible ...
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Strange firefox problems when started by xinit
when I start firefox console via:
xinit /usr/bin/firefox
firefox is not working properly:
html select elements does not work (unable to change default value)
after opening local pages (I.e. ...
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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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Upstart pushback unexpected error, is it a bug?
This is on Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS with upstart versions 1.5-0ubuntu7.1 and 1.5-0ubuntu7.2.
These updates were pushed back mid release and break every machine from the company I host with.
I am not sure ...
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Upstart job not running at boot
Hi all I have been trying to figure out my problem for some time and think it is now time to ask someone who know more than me. Hopefully this is only a simple solution for someone in the know
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User job not wokring in Upstart 1.5
I have my xyz.conf upstart config file in my $HOME/.init directory. When I run "start xyz" I get this error:
start: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.56" ...
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Upstart service stops when I log out
I've written an upstart script I want to run when my server starts up, only it does not. It will run when I call sudo start wiki, where wiki is the name of my service, however it stops running when I ...
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Upstart: report (email, log) on respawn and failure
I would like to get an email when an upstart job fails and respawns, and when all respawns are depleted, and the job fails.
How can I do that?
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Restart Upstart
I'm in the process of building a job to work in upstart, and any time I have even a typo the entire upstart breaks; not just my job. Is there any way to reload upstart without rebooting?
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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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How to modify the LiveUSB to execute a script upon boot
I have created a live usb image (ubuntu desktop) using live usb creator. Now what I am required to do is to boot through the LiveUSB and when it finishes booting it will perform some operation such as ...
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Powernap daemon doesn't start with upstart
I have a problem with powernap daemon on kubuntu 13.04, which doesn't start with upstart (or with /etc/init.d/powernap start). On my other machine with ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS it starts ok.
$ sudo service ...
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Shutdown slow: unknown job s35networking
Since I've upgraded to Ubuntu 13.04 from 12.04 LTS, I get this error when I shutdown the pc:
rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8) utility service S35 ...
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Upgrading to Upstart 1.8 in Quantal
Wondering if anybody has any tips for upgrading the version of upstart on Quantal from 1.5 (shipped) to the latest version 1.8.
With 1.7 & 1.8 Upstart brought in some extra support for how env ...
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initctl status autofs is stuck on stop/starting
We have an issue with Upstart not restarting the autofs job when the automount process dies, and the Upstart job status gets stuck in the "stop/starting" state. The process is not automatically ...
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How can I add an upstart script specifically to the end of the boot sequence?
Is there a simple way to determine the last upstart script to run, so I can add my custom bits to depend on that one stub?
I'm asking so I can resolve the Ubuntu-desktop on Nexus 7 bug of audio not ...
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How can I inspect Upstart Job States Transitions Using log file?
I want to have a look at the states transitions using the method described here:
http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#viewing-state-transitions.
This is what I do:
# initctl log-priority debug
# ...
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How will I be able to enable user mode for Upstart on on 13.04?
Once 13.04 comes out, I'd like to install it with the unsupported "Upstart user mode." I have read the docs and see the "from TTY" information, but it's not clear how to make the login from LightDM ...
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How is nbd-server supposed to start at boot time under Ubuntu 12.04?
So, a client upgraded from 10.04 to 12.04 on a whim. Suddenly things didn't work. They have a couple old machines that they use as terminals with LTSP. After the upgrade they couldn't get the ...
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Starting bumblebeed on boot
I have recently installed bumblebee and it works great - except that bumblebeed doesn't start automatically when I boot. I have tried to run $ sudo update-rc.d bumblebeed defaults, but it doesn't make ...
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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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static-network-up not emitted if virtual interfaces present?
I'm wondering if I've found a bug in ifupdown, but I wanted to ask here before reporting a bug:
/etc/network/if-up.d/upstart seems to fail to emit static-network-up if any virtual interfaces are ...
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upstart hangs on stop
having an issue with upstart where i can start it but when i run
sudo stop up
it hangs
this is the .conf file
# my upstart django script
# this script will start/stop my django development ...
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Cannot get Monit Watchdog to function on 12.04
The well known Monit utility will not launch and stay running as a daemon on 12.04. Most of the instructions found on the web are outdated for 10 or 11 versions of Ubuntu.
Anyone had any success in ...
