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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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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Ubuntu 16.04 Fails to reboot with svnserve service active
I have an Ubuntu Server 16.04 running on VMWare
I installed subversion with apt-get install subversion and created a new repository and configured it
if I start the svnserve daemon with svnserve -d -...
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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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How to run a script at shutdown linux like Gentoo /etc/local.d but on Ubuntu [duplicate]
I have a script that moves files when I'm done but I only know how to use it in Gentoo. How would I do this on Ubuntu
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WiFi interface is not initialized correctly
I recently experimented with macchanger, because I wanted to change my MAC address automatically at boot. I do remeber creating a script for this somwhere, but I forgot where. It never worked but now ...
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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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init.d script runs incorrectly on boot but is working when executed manually
I have a very simple script that I have placed in the init.d folder, this script works fine when run manually. But whenever I reboot the server it only does the touch command and does nothing with the ...
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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 should I run /etc/init.d/scripts after reboot?
I am running my script manually but after reboot it does not start automatically.
I created my script in /etc/init.d/myscript. It starts manually if I do: /etc/init.d/myscript start. But after reboot ...
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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 ...
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init.d script failing to start
sudo /etc/init.d/autovpn start works
yet sudo service autovpn start will not
i have done update-rc.d autovpn defaults
the link is in /etc/rc.5
runlevel returns N 5
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What is best way for virtualbox automatic graceful guest savestate on host reboot/shutdown
I have Ubuntu 14.04 host with some win guests drived by Virtualbox 5.1. Some of them are really big and needs about 1-2-3 minutes to get to savestate.
As far as I know there are at least two init.d ...
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init scripts don't run
I wish to create a script that will run on startup of runlevel 3 only once.
Therefore now I perform tests to see if the execution really works.
I tried to create a file at /etc/init.d/myscript that ...
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How to ensure that autofs and nfs are ready before another service?
Under Ubuntu 14.04, I have developed a program in C++ that writes to an NFSv4 volume mounted by autofs.
The program works fine when my machine has already "warmed up".
However, it crashes when it's ...
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Cannot start deluged service (init.d)
I installed deluge, deluged and deluge-console. All of them work fine and I can start the deluged daemon using this command
$ deluged
but I cannot start it using the init.d script that comes with it....
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Run Python Script on OS boot
This might be a question that has been repeated but i cannot find a correct way to do it .
What is my case ?
->I want to run a Python script.
What does the python script do in brief?
->The python ...
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init.d script is not executed
I have an /etc/init.d script that starts my webserver.
I made it executable and added it (update-rc.d webserver defaults).
When I execute the script from the command line it works fine (./webserver).
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ZNC, Systemd, and Ubuntu 16.04.1 Server
I recently did a backup of my ZNC VPS, and did a clean install from 14.04.5 to 16.04.1 Server. The only major issue that I'm having so far, is moving from init.d to Systemd. ZNC just won't autoboot.
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Script in `/etc/init` is not executed
I added script /etc/init/trackpoint.conf and it contains:
description "Trackpoint-Settings"
env TPDIR=/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2
start on filesystems # also tried on virtual-...
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rTorrent init script not working
I'm trying to set up an Ubuntu 14.04 box with rTorrent and ruTorrent. I've installed rTorrent and it launches just fine using my own user account.
I've created a new user account named rtorrent to ...
