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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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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What's the difference between “Service” and “/etc/init.d/”?
I've been managing server installations both on and off Ubuntu flavor for some time - I've become quite adjusted to /etc/init.d/ for restarting servcies. Now I get this message:
root@tatooine:~# ...
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Is there any GUI tool for Upstart
Is there currently any GUI based application to show currently running services, with buttons to start and stop services?
It doesn't necessarily need to be able to set boot up behaviour.
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upstart-supervised init script for Apache?
I want to run apache on Ubuntu 10.04, and use the nice supervision stuff in upstart (I'm not just talking about the apache init script, but proper service supervision a la daemontools - which is to ...
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Why isn't my upstart service starting on system boot?
Following on from this question, I have written a simple upstart service (/etc/init/pms.conf) for my headless Ubuntu Server 11.04 box as follows:
start on filesystem and net-device-up IFACE=eth0
stop ...
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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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how to debug upstart scripts?
For some reason I'm getting an error during apport upgrades, the cause of which is
% sudo service apport start
start: Job failed to start
Under sysvinit, I could debug this kind of problem by ...
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Slow boot after clean install of Natty
The time have risen from 20-25 sec in Meerkat to 35 sec in Natty. I do not know if it is ureadahead but made a bugreport of it in launchpad. I tried Fedora shortly before installing Natty. They use ...
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How system services are started in 12.10?
One thing that always confused me in Ubuntu was how system services are started. I know that Ubuntu uses Upstart and supports SysV, but which one is used to start the services? This matters when you ...
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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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How to start and stop a service? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What’s the recommended way to enable / disable services?
Are there any other command to start stop restart service in ubuntu other than the below following.
service ...
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How do I set up a service?
I have a script that I would like to run as a service on my Ubuntu Server 11.04 headless box. That is, I want to have the correct files under /etc/init.d/ and to be able to control it via the service ...
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Why does upstart keep respawning my process?
I wrote an upstart script to launch a daemon inside a tmux session. It works well and respawns the process if it dies unexpectedly, but I can't seem to stop it manually.
The job (called bukkit) looks ...
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How to set a Upstart job to start manually?
I want to disable a bunch of upstart jobs here. I know how to make a upstart job. And also I know how to stop manually a job. However, I can't find a sample where I turn a automatically job into a ...
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Upstart service never starts or stops completely
I'm trying to make a simple upstart script for teamspeak server, but can't make it work.
When I say initctl start it just executes but never finishes or even emits any message. Same is happening ...
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What tool can I use to manage upstart services?
How should I configure upstart runlevels ? Of course I could edit /etc/init/XX but that wasn't right way to do this, I think.
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Do newer Ubuntu releases benefit from multicore processors at boot time?
I've read the Upstart features and it says nothing about concurrency.
I also read old advices to set CONCURRENCY value in the /etc/init.d/rc
But there is a comment:
Specify method used to enable ...
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What events are available for Upstart?
Is there a list of available events that can be used for Upstart?
For example start on local-filesystems so local-filesystems is an event but when is it triggered and what other events are there?
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How do I configure upstart to run a script on shutdown when the process takes longer than 10secs?
I am running ubuntu 11.10 in a virtual machine (VirtualBox) to learn more about development in linux. I am using a git repository to save my work and have written a script to bundle my work up and ...
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Want to make an upstart script; need help and advice
Atm, I need to randomly start and stop (for lack of a better word in my mind) a job. I start it by typing java -jar foo.jar and to stop it find out its pid and kill it. Killing it doesn't cause any ...
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Automatically mount sshfs on startup?
Is it possible to automatically mount a sshfs filesystem whenever the connection goes up?
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Differences between Upstart and Systemd
I have read several news sites about Systemd and how better it is but I have not yet seen one that actually compares Upstart with Systemd. Actually, I haven't even seen one that talks about the ...
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Upstart script: Detect shift key down at boot
I want to create a boot up potential which allows a different upstart/runlevel configurations to load based upon specific key downs at boot (or combos). How do I detect a key down event with an ...
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From init.d to upstart, is there a bridge?
I've got a perfectly good script for use in /etc/init.d. In fact, I have a lot of them, all created with the Tanuki Java Service Wrapper.
It would seem to me that there could be a simple template for ...
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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 to disable GDM from being automatically started?
After Ubuntu Server 12.04 installation, I installed Xubuntu just to have a minimal GUI:
sudo apt-get install x-window-system-core
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends xubuntu-desktop gparted
...
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upstart config to start sync daemon as non-root user
I am planning to use inosync to sync data from master server to several client servers.
I have created a user called rsyncuser in both master and slaves with access permissions and passwordless ssh ...
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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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How do I start jobs as a non privileged user in Upstart?
I'm using last upstart version for ubuntu 10.4 LTS. upstart is launched with --debug kernel flag.
I'm making a custom job configuration for nzbget daemon. Basically, this job has a pre-start script ...
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Remove services from upstart
I have mysql installed (from repos) on a development machine (laptop) and I don't need the daemon running on every boot. I've copied /etc/init/mysql.conf to /etc/init/mysql.conf.old and then removed ...
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How to config start services with Upstart?
Since upstart 1.5 comes with Ubuntu 12.04,
bum and sysv-rc-conf is no longer effective on it.
How can I config?
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How do I disable irqbalance?
The title says it all really. I don't want to just kill something that seems so close to the bare metal, and sudo service irqbalance stop says stop: Unknown instance: -- what am I missing? Should I be ...
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upstart init script remains on apt-get remove
I just created my first .deb file ever from a Python script. I included a package.upstart file under package/debian and all installed great.
However, I noticed that apt-get remove package leaves the ...
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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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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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Upstart not executing the exec function in upstart.conf
I have a completed upstart conf file loaded here: http://pastebin.com/5E7J5jEY but I'm having trouble with the upstart not executing the exec function and/or relinquishing the kernel console CLI back ...
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why would /etc/init.d/mysql run the wrong upstart job?
update: /lib/init/upstart-job has been replaced with the MongoDB init script.
For some reason, /etc/init.d/mysql start|stop|restart|status (/etc/init.d/mysql is simply a symlink to ...
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/sbin/getty process causing 100% CPU utilization
I have an instance of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-25-virtual i686) running as a KVM-VM on a host-machine that runs one more VM beside it.
I deploy a Ruby on Rails application using the ...
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Auto-start service on bootup that depend on network
I have a particular service (in this case OpenFire) that runs at startup. When it starts, it attempts to connect to a database at a given hostname. At startup time it fails to connect to that ...
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ubuntu upstart script execute a script.py program
I'm creating an upstart script to execute a python program I've written. When the service is starting I want to echo starting service - script.py... and echo the process id of the program once ...
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MySQL server Upstart script not working on boot
For some reason the Upstart script for the MySQL server isn't working when I boot my server, however it does work once the server has booted and I execute sudo start mysql manually.
I'm running an ...
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How to get output from upstart jobs when logged in via SSH?
at the moment, I am trying to learn upstart and can't get around a basic problem. To monitor what my job definitions are doing, I would like to see text output from the jobs. That does not seem to be ...
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Debugging: Console Output and Upstart Scripts
How do you send the output of an upstart script to a terminal so to find tracebacks in python code? It's taking me for ever to do things without trace-backs that used to take just a second. I'm ...
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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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Best way to make a shutdown hook?
Since Ubuntu relies on upstart for some time now, I would like to use an upstart job to gracefully shutdown certain applications on system shutdown or reboot. It is essential that the system's ...
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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 ...
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Python service using Upstart on Ubuntu
I want to create to deploy a heartbeat service (a python script) as a service using Upstart.
My understanding is that I've to add a /etc/init/myheartbeatservice.conf with the following contents.
# ...
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upstart memcached
I've put together an upstart script for memcached based on the init.d script it ships with, as I couldn't find any examples anywhere. The problem is it's not respawning automatically when I kill the ...
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Why does upstart fail to start my juju service with Unknown job: juju-ubuntu-0?
I'm having issues launching juju on an lxc container through regular juju deploy commands:
juju bootstrap
juju deploy ubuntu
The ubuntu juju status continually says pending. The LXC starts, and I ...
