Questions tagged [init]
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/etc/inittab respawn script migrating from RHEL/CentOS 5.x to 6.x
I have a non-forking perl script running as a TCP-sockets daemon (this script is a backend for a multiplayer game) in CentOS 5.7. It is being started and respawned by /etc/inittab:
pref:3:respawn:/bin/su -c '/usr/local/pref/pref.pl >/tmp/pref-`date…
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Alexander Farber
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Fedora init boot sequence
I am interested in Linux Fedora's boot sequence, specifically starting at the user-space init sequence. What are the good sources of information on this front?
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jldupont
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Monitor a custom Java HTTP server from a bash shell?
How could I monitor a service port from a bash shell?
I want to monitor a Java service (once per minute on port 9090) and then call "/etc/init.d/myservice -restart" if the service isn't responding with a simple HTML message.
How would you do…
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djangofan
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svnserve init.d script
Has any one got a init script for the svn service lying around that works?
Thanks
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Sparky
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My init.d script is never called with the stop parameter?
I created a script called blueBoxT for starting and stopping Oracle and placed it in the /etc/init.d directory.
#!/bin/bash
echo "blueBoxT $1 - `date '+%Y%m%d%H%M'`" >> /root/blueBoxT.log
case "$1" in
'start')
echo "Starting Oracle"
su -…
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dacracot
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Explanation of the init.d/scripts Fedora
Below is a copy of vsftpd, i need some explanations of some of the scripts mentioned below in this script:
#!/bin/bash
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: vsftpd
# Required-Start: $local_fs $network $named $remote_fs $syslog
# Required-Stop: $local_fs…
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Sparky
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Rebuilding /etc/rc?.d/ links
A regular filesystem check on a Debian Lenny system triggered an fsck, and that nuked a handful of links in the /etc/rc?.d hierarchy (unfortunately I didn't keep a list).
The system seems to boot and run normally, but I'm worried its storing up…
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timday
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Need help with custom init script
I'm trying to set up an init script for a process on redhat linux:
#!/bin/sh
#
# Startup script for Conquest
#
# chkconfig: 345 85 15 - start or stop process definition within the boot process
# description: Conquest DICOM Server
# processname:…
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churnd
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Explain steps RedHat distros take to boot into Emergency mode?
Please, I am not looking for a rehash of what's stated in RedHat's documentation regarding emergency mode. I would like to know what steps are involved from the time grub hands off to the kernel to the time you get a emergency mode login prompt.
I…
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CarpeNoctem
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Custom initrd init script: how to create /dev/initctl
I have a virtual machine (VMM is Xen 3.3) equipped with two IDE HDD's (/dev/hda and /dev/hdb). The root file system is in /dev/hda1, where Scientific Linux 5.4 is installed. /dev/hdb contains an empty ext2 file system.
I want to protect the root…
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Posco Grubb
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Start script are not cleared table of processes
I have a proxy server, all ok. But, i have some problems & questions.
First: when i make "/etc/init.d/nginx stop" or "/etc/init.d/nginx restart", of my config, it not reload and all nginx process are not killed.
My script:
case "$1" in
start)
echo…
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Piduna Valeriu
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s6 supervisor: variable set with s6-envdir can't be used
I'm trying to wrap my head around s6 supervisor suite. I've figured out run and log but I'm stuck with s6-envdir and I'm not sure how do I use it.
I see that environment variable gets set, but I can't access it.
To illustrate:
# According to the…
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Roman Grazhdan
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Unable to do a PXE boot, "no filesystem could mount root" error
I'm trying to do a PXE boot with an image I created, but after loading the image and the kernel, I get the following error message:
The main error message is this:
No filesystem could mount root, tried: ext3 ext2 iso9668
Kernel panic - not…
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Ted Desmond
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How to boot after Systemd startup into program/script
I try to write a network/environment configurator for a distributed OVA appliance, similar to what Github Enterprise does, see https://github-images.s3.amazonaws.com/enterprise/Enterprise-QS-Virtualbox-Console.png. I use CoreOS and Systemd as init…
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Kreisquadratur
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How to display init output to tty7 (or main tty)
I have created my first init script in a linux server (ubuntu if that adds any information) that checks for an update, downloads it and executes it in each hour. The init file is as follows:
/etc/init/updater.conf
start on (filesystem and stopped…
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Blue Genie
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