Questions tagged [sysv]

System-V init service. Questions about how Ubuntu uses System-V like scripts to start/stop services at runlevels and it behavior, you should also check systemd and upstart for creation of newer scrips.

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`apt dist-upgrade` doesn't care about removing upstart and wants to install sysvinit... why? [duplicate]

I ran a regular apt-get upgrade followed by apt-get dist-upgrade. After I clicked on the 'Yes' as usual, the dist-upgrade started removing a lot of important packages and when I scrolled up in the ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 - Can't install sysv-rc-conf package for managing startup services

I am using Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS I am not able to install sysv-rc package. Tried to install from deb package but there are so many dependencies that I failed by downloading them one by one. Why sysv-rc ...
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service not as advertised

I am trying to add a new sysV service on an Ubuntu 18.04 host. However the service command does not behave as described in the manual - despite the presence of a file in /etc/init.d, "service" ...
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Is it possible to remove systemd completely in Ubuntu 17.10 replacing with sysvinit or upstart or OpenRC

Personal preference to run Ubuntu 17.10 without systemd as init replacement. I would like to know, if Upstart, OpenRC etc works anymore in Ubuntu 17.10 as direct replacement. I know, it will be hard ...
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How can I get the order of startup scripts - upstart and systemV

I have an upstart script that must start before a non-upstart (System V) script. I see that while booting, the systemV script starts before my upstart script. How can I check the boot order of these ...
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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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SysV, Upstart and systemd init script coexistence

On my system (16.04), there are the files /lib/systemd/system/network-manager.service and /etc/init.d/network-manager, for example. I don't understand how (and why) this works. I always restart ...
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Why the services do not start at installation?

I've seen this sometime now, but not finding anything in the ubuntu man about this peculiar policy-rc.d binary that prevents services from being started/restarted/stopped when called by dpkg/apt, so I ...
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apt-get error: "SysV: not found"

On a Ubuntu 14.04 system we had installed elasticsearch 2.3.4. The system was upgraded to 16.04 An apt-get update & upgrade tried to upgrade to elasticsearch 2.4.4. But, we're now getting this ...
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How to check if a service was started by upstart or sysvinit?

For some services (ex: bluetooth) I have entries in both /etc/init.d/ and in /etc/init/ directory. How do I know how this service is started ? By sysvinit or upstart ? I am using Ubuntu 14.04.
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How to display the missing output message while execute sudo service/systemctl on Ubuntu 16.04

We already knew that from Ubuntu 15 and above are using systemd, however the famous and unbeatable SysV still supported. But there is a small issue which annoying (me and whom may concern). I love ...
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How to run an interactive script before xserver shutdown?

Every time I shutdown or restart my laptop (Ubuntu 14.04), I would like to run a script that checks, whether I pushed my newest code to my remote git repository. If I forgot it, then it opens a ...
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Script in /etc/init.d/ does not run in Ubuntu 15.10

I have a script which simply echos current time and appends the output to a file. Below is the bash script. #!/bin/bash #Filename: /etc/init.d/bootlog #Bash script to record a timestamp. echo "Time: `...
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Revert to upstart

Is it possible to revert an ubuntu 14.10 install to a upstart or a SysV init system. The "loggin" and other issues with systemd has caused me issus with being unable to read the dmesg as normal and ...
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Trusty preseed error

I have a preseed file that installs Trusty but the install is giving me this error: Jul 22 17:52:42 in-target: Setting up sysv-rc (2.88dsf-41+deb7u1) ... Jul 22 17:52:42 in-target: info: Reordering ...
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Removing Sys-V-Init script in favour of rc.local. Will application still shutdown correctly?

I've had to remove the /etc/init.d/crashplan script by doing update-rc.d -f crashplan remove in favour of starting the daemon using /etc/rc.local (the reason for this is that I have an encrypted home ...
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How can I know if a certain service is running or not?

The service utility allows to know the current status for the services installed in the system. However, when invocking service --status-all some services are listed as [+] (running), some as [-] (...
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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 ...