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Explanation of chkconfig Levels

What do the levels in chkconfig mean? e.g. chkconfig --levels 235 httpd on
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What is Runlevel 'S' on Debian/Ubuntu for

According to Wikipedia, 'S' is supposed to be a standard runlevel: "Single-User Mode". But if I'm not mistaken, the Single-User mode on Debian is Runlevel 1. One Debian article I found claims, that 'S' is a runlevel "that the system uses on it's way…
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Any way to make service do not autostart in Ubuntu/Debian, but leave K00 scripts in place?

I need to have only stop scripts in rcN.d (runlevels 0,1,6) for apache2. So that I always start it by myself, but when reboot occurs server will shut down apache2 properly. And when I change runlevel 2-3 server doesnt' touch apache daemon (leaving…
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How to change default runlevel of Ubuntu (lucid)?

I have Ubuntu lucid on my home computer. Today I was experimenting with runlevels and I couldn't figure out how to change the default run level of Ubuntu. I can do that using /etc/inittab on Debian 504 but that file is not there in Ubuntu. I have…
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Upstart: stop on runlevel [016] vs stop on starting rc RUNLEVEL=[016]

So, I'm working on an upstart init script for mysql. Should be trivial, right? My stop stanza looks like: kill timeout 30 stop on runlevel [016] I shutdown now -r, and mysql yells about my MyISAM tables being crashed, just like I'd kill -9'd my…
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Execution order of runlevel scripts

My runlevel 0 scripts in /etc/rc0.d, which should be executed when stopping are for example K05foo -> ... K10bar -> ... K80baz -> ... S10somemore -> ... S90halt -> ... Is it correct, that the excution order is as listed above, that is First all…
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How to run script on first boot?

I need to run some bash script only once on first boot (after OS installation) of my CentOS machine This script should run before network service start (because this script will change network configuration) How can I register my script to run…
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CentOS Server won't reboot when issuing reboot command

CentOS 5.x Hi all, For some reason, my CentOS server didn't want to reboot after I issued the reboot and shutdown -r now commands. All I saw in the /var/log/messages logs were: Aug 25 13:34:32 voltage-out shutdown[1784]: shutting down for …
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Centos 6.6 ignores inittab – always boots to runlevel 3

Well, like the title says, I have inittab set to id:5:initdefault but it always boots to runlevel 3 (as confirmed by "runlevel" and "who -r") Typing 'init 5' brings the GUI up. Also, appending '5' to the kernel grub line also brings up the GUI. By…
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Can I use Bash interpreter in service/daemon scripts?

I'm writing a Debian/Ubuntu service that should start on at runlevel 2-5. Most of the existing services I came accross are written using /bin/sh (Shell) interpreter while /bin/bash (Bash) offer lot of improvement and simplification. So is there…
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How to remove MySQL on boot

denis@australia:~$ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS \n \l denis@australia:~$ chkconfig --list mysql mysql 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off But mysql runs on the startup anyway.
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Cannot get Nginx to start on boot with Ubuntu

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 and Nginx 1.2.1 which I compiled from source. I tried the below commands to get nginx to start on boot: $ sudo update-rc.d nginx default $ sudo update-rc.d nginx enable 2345 In both cases I'm getting the following…
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Delay init from starting a service for a period of time?

I am trying to get a rudimentary NFS server up and running. Right now the server is configured as an NFS server due to a workaround for a vendor issue not supporting direct attached clustered storage, which we are trying to get them to resolve. The…
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How to add a service to the S runlevel in Debian?

I have the following script (what it does exactly is not important): #!/bin/sh -e ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: watchdog_early # Required-Start: udev # Required-Stop: # Default-Start: S # Default-Stop: # X-Interactive: …
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how to define service runlevel order position?

I setup bind-dlz and need mysql start prior NAMED when system starts here is what I have [root@semenov]# ./test.sh mysql 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off named 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on …
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