Questions tagged [init.d]
The init.d directory contains a number of start/stop scripts for various services on your system.
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Shell script in init.d not starting on boot
I have to create a devil that starts on boot. It is currently in /etc/init.d and I've created a symlink in /etc/rc5.d since my runlevel is 5, but the "start" case in the script wont start during boot. ...
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Bootprocess of Ubuntu 19.10
I'm trying to figure out, what the system does during its boot procedure.
This is how far I came:
GRUB (bootloader) → Kernel → systemd (init process)
systemd checks default bootlevel/target (where?)...
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Ubuntu Server 18.04 - ExpressVPN at boot
What would be the correct way to start the Express vpn client at boot detailed here
Specifically;
In the terminal, run the following command:
expressvpn connect
I would want this to run at ...
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script in rc3.d not executing. correct place?
Maybe it needs to go somewhere else. I need to enable all the fans to %100. The script I use works if I run from a terminal but not on boot
ln -s /etc/init/setfan.sh /etc/rc3.d/S99setfan.sh
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I'd like to add a pause to a linux service, why doesn't my test work?
I'd like to make mythtv-backend pause before starting, I tried editing /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend, adding a line at start of the file
echo "sleeping 100" >> /tmp/sleep_test
sleep 100
It never ...
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Can't perform upgrade due to failing util-linux, insserv & initscripts
Routine upgrade of 16.04.6 server has been failing with following errors:
Preconfiguring packages ...
Setting up util-linux (2.27.1-6ubuntu3.8) ...
insserv: warning: script is corrupt or invalid: /...
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Can't get my init script to run
So I made a teamspeak3 server on linux, and manually I can start it using this script I got from this(german) website.
I also read this raspi.SE asnwer, which basically says the same thing.
I even ...
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Is there a single init script in Ubuntu 16.04 for the invocation of the booting or separate directories?
If so, where are they located? And can the init script be modified according to the system requirements?
I located the /etc/init folder and I wanted to know, since Suse has one init script, does ...
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/etc/init.d/rc missing in Ubuntu18.04
I would need to adapt some scripts from Ubuntu 16.04 to Ubuntu 18.04 and /etc/init.d/rc is missing in Ubuntu 18.04.
This path was moved to a different one or everything was migrated to systemd? If it ...
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Apache fails to start on boot (18.04)
I have an Apache installation that is falling over when called on boot from init.d:
Oct 28 15:29:38 Myth systemd[1]: Starting The Apache HTTP Server...
Oct 28 15:29:39 Myth apachectl[958]: (99)Cannot ...
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Does my init.d script look correct and do I need to reboot for it to work?
I've never made an init.d script before or any other sort of bash file so I'm uncertain if this is correct. If someone could let me know how the script looks then I'd appreciate it. For now, I would ...
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How to have the system run a bash script to remap keys after login? [duplicate]
I've got a setup-notebook-keyboard.sh script that I run everytime after logging in because I like my keyboard with the
CapsLock -> Esc,
CapsLock+Key -> Ctrl+Key
setting.
I've tried to set this ...
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How to control whether the initd script or the systemd unit file is used to start/stop/control the service?
Some packages, like apt-cacher-ng provide both a /etc/init.d/apt-cacher-ng and /lib/systemd/system/apt-cacher-ng.service. That might be a good or bad idea (in comparison to providing an apt-cacher-ng-...
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Tomcat 7 as a service under systemctl in 18.04 -configuration?[SOLVED]
I have been revisiting and checking old projects since upgrading to 18.04. I have trouble as described in this question which has been erroneously closed as a duplicate. I believe the problem is ...
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Run a script as a service in Ubuntu
I have installed elasticsearch . This is how I am running it currently.
cd /elasticsearch-6.3.1/bin
./elasticsearch
It is working fine. But, I want to run this program as a service. Like, I want to ...
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run script when dockercontainer starts?
If I create a dockerfile based on Debian I can add the following line to execute a script when I'm initiating the container:
COPY userconf.sh /etc/cont-init.d/userconf
What would be the equivalent ...
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Registering an init.d service
Trying to register a service in /etc/init.d, but cannot get it to run with service myservice start and at boot-up
Executable file:
#!/bin/sh
# kFreeBSD do not accept scripts as interpreters, using #!...
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How to restart system and desktop after pivot_root
I'm using ubuntu 16.04 for my OS system.
I had changed to new root with pivot_root.
And tried to restart all the system and the desktop.
I would not try to use reboot cause it will reboot the old ...
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Why are some packages installing init-scripts and systemd config files? Aren't init-scripts superfluous by now?
nginx for example installs:
/etc/init.d/nginx
/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service
https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/all/nginx-common/filelist
Shouldn't /etc/init.d/nginx be removed from the package?...
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Running a Windows .exe service on Ubuntu (with Mono?) [closed]
I have a service that was coded that I need to move over to linux. Got the code and got it up and running as a .exe on windows to start using installutil.
However quite unsure how to get it working ...
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Bash script which starts on startup to do 3 things
I have add the following to my /etc/rc.local:
folder=/home/secrets
inotifywait -m -q -e create -r --format '%:e %w%f' $folder | while read file
do
mv -f /home/secrets/chaps.secrets /etc/ppp/...
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How to respawn automatically a process(wso2am)?
I have an upstart script as
# Ubuntu upstart file at /etc/init/wso2am.conf
#!upstart
description "wso2am"
pre-start script
mkdir -p /var/log/wso2am/
end script
respawn
respawn limit 15 5
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Why does changing a init.d service start script makes no difference? The /etc/init.d/ script has a stale ExecStart
No matter what value I set in the line DAEMON=/home/odoo/odoo/odoo-bin it always runs the old process in ExecStart. In other words, my changes aren't applied. I am running sudo nano /etc/init.d/odoo ...
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init.d / rc2.d script gets executed twice sometimes
I have a startup script, that sometimes gets executed twice (a few seconds apart) upon system boot (Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS). Sometimes it only gets executed once! The script is located at /etc/init.d/TEST ...
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Service starting failed - Failed to start SYSV
My objective is to start a personal daemon called gobatch. gobatch is stored into /usr/bin/gobatch.
gobatch is a deamon that allows you to run cyclicaly at a date or a specific time a program. ...
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Error when I start /etc/init.d/my_program
I need to develop a program with Python3 which executs automaticly programs at specific times. I must use a deamon.
That's why I created a file into /usr/bin/ and /etc/init.d/.
However, when I run ...
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(terminology) init.d script = LSB Init Script = System V Init script?
I'm having some trouble recognizing the different types of (traditional) system process management tools by name.
By "traditional" I mean before the likes of upstart, systemd, launchd etc. which I ...
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Error while running a python3 script on startup
I'm trying to run a python script ( /home/user/Desktop/file.py ) on startup by making a bash script ( /etc/init.d/file.bash ) that runs the python script
#!/bin/bash
case "$1" in
start)
echo "...
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Problem trying to start postsrsd service in 16.04
When I try to start postsrsd with sudo service postsrsd start, it results in the following syslog entries:
Started SRS lookup table for Postfix.
/usr/sbin/postsrsd: option requires an argument -- ...
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How can I make sure one Upstart service starts before other non-Upstart (System V) service?
Is there a way to run one Upstart service before another non-Upstart service (system V, to be more precise)?
Or I must "convert" my Upstart script to a System V script (if it provides such ...
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ntp.service not getting started on bootup
I am upgrading my system from 14.04 to 16.04, I am facing this issue of ntp.service not getting started on bootup.
$ sudo systemctl status ntp.service
● ntp.service - LSB: Start NTP daemon
Loaded:...
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insserv: warning: script 'S99runlcactivator' missing LSB tags and overrides [duplicate]
I am unable to install a new software or upgrade the existing ones. I have been getting insserv warning (see here)
Please help.
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I accidentally deleted the /etc/rc3.d directory on my Ubuntu 16.04 installation can someone list the contents for me?
I accidentally deleted the /etc/rc3.d directory on my Ubuntu 16.04 installation can someone list the contents for me, with ls -all so I can see the symbolic links.
Thanks in advance!
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How to start a tftp server using inetd?
I want to start a tftp server. Here, I am using inetd.
Configuration file for tftp in inetd.conf.d folder contains :
tftp dgram udp wait nobody /sbin/tftpd tftpd -l /var/tftp
I have changed the ...
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Launch docker deamon at startup when offline
On a 14.04 LTS, my docker daemon doesn't start at init when internet isn't available. An ifconfig doesn't show any docker0. The only related message I've found is in /var/log/kern.log :
IPv6: ...
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How to debug a service that “crashes” Upstart (supervisor, in this case)
I running Ubuntu 14.04. I have several services configured to run on boot, one of which is supervisor. I boot into runlevel 2, so all of the services in /etc/rc2.d/ should be started at boot.
/etc/...
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Exact number of system services
In Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS with 4.4.0-75-generic
Within /ect/init.d/
$ ls -1 | wc -l
82
On the other hand,
$ systemctl list-units | grep service | wc -l
75
Why do those two numbers differ? Shouldn't ...
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Difference between systemctl init.d and service
I am new to linux and have been testing myself using an Amazon Lightsail instance (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS).
Going through the many guides I have came across, I see people using different commands to start/...
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Asynchronous init.d script
I'm wondering if it is possible for a startup script to run continuously in Ubuntu. What I have in mind is something like a Minecraft server script that is constantly running so that if the server ...
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Why does redis-server service keep starting even after update-rc.d remove command?
I installed redis-server on Ubuntu 16.04 using apt.
It seems to auto-start at every boot-up by default
I don't like this, so I've tried the below commands:
sudo update-rc.d -f redis-server remove #...
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Why do initd scripts in /etc/init.d remain after deinstallation of the corresponding package?
Packages, like irqbalance provide an initd script /etc/init.d/irqbalance which remains after the deinstallation of the packages with apt-get remove and needs to be evaluated by systemd or another init ...
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Failed to start <myapp>.service: Unit <myapp>.service not found
I created a super basic init.d script for my python bot:
#!/bin/bash
# chkconfig: 2345 20 80
# description: Description comes here....
# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions
start() {
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I have uninstalled and then again reinstalled openfire in Ubuntu 16.04, but after that openfire.sh file is missing in init.d directory
sudo: /etc/init.d/openfire: command not found
I checked etc/init.d directory. I found no file there and openfire setup is installed. What should I do? I am just stuck here. Please help me.
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Can you autorun with init.d files without a shell script script
Is is possible to automatically run a program at startup using init.d (others may also work) without making a init-script. As an example maybe you could directly copy the executable into the init.d ...
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Ubuntu insserv rejected the script header
I m constantly getting this error while I m trying to install or purge any packages -
insserv: exiting now without changing boot order!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
The ...
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How to find out what init mode system is using?
I was looking at this and I'm not sure how to find out which startup service is used on my machine (Ubuntu 14.04 on Digital Ocean). Can it use all of them? (upstart, system v, systemd)
https://www....
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How to execute script file at startup without using any commands like ln -s or any other to be executed at first?
How to execute script file at startup without requiring any commands to be executed at beginning to set it up like chmod , ln -s with etc/rc.d or any other command ?
The script file should be ...
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Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS : apache2 won't start on boot, possibly after apt-get upgrade
I just did a sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade and rebooted my server, but apache2 didn't auto start. I started it manually with sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start and it started with no ...
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System beep from rc.local-scheduled Python script
I managed to create a Python script to accept magnetic card swipes from a USB-based reader. It seems to work as expected. Part of the routine is a curl command to push the data to another server. ...
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why does update-rc.d not accept my init script
I want to start the noip.com dyndns client on bootup and am using the provided debian.noip2.sh script (which starts the client from the shell just fine). I copied it to /etc/init.d, made it owned by ...
