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A service (also daemon or server) is a programme that constantly runs in the background. It usually services requests. If you are asking about online services, please use a different tag.

A service (also daemon or server) is a programme that constantly runs in the background. It usually services requests. If you are asking about online services, please use a different tag.

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Can't start mysql service

I can't restart my mysql service from my ubuntu server. Here is the error : ● mysql.service - LSB: Start and stop the mysql database server daemon Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/mysql; bad; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code)…
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What does a question mark mean when listing all services?

After executing the command service --status-all I get a listing of all the services on my machine. I get an output like this. [ ? ] acpi-fakekey [ ? ] acpi-support [ + ] acpid [ - ] anacron [ + ] apache2 [ + ] atd [ - ] bootlogd What does a…
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Windows Services don't automatically start after reboot?

We've got some Windows services written in .NET. They start fine manually within the services mmc, but despite being set to Automatic, they never start when powering on (or rebooting) the machine. Update In the event log, instead of seeing "xyz…
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Services: Is there any real difference between "Manual" and "Disabled"?

I was just looking at our server, thinking about disabling any Services that we're not using, and it got me wondering: Provided a Service is never called by anything to start, and it's just sat on "Manual", does it take any system resources in that…
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Run a Program Without User Being Logged On

I am running a Windows 7 installation, and I want to be able to run an application when there is no user logged in. The reason for this is that my application is a monitoring tool, and we want to be able to monitor 24/7 even if the computer reboots.…
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Where is a good place to find a good SLA agreement?

I would like to find a website that provides example service level agreements (SLA). Anyone know where I can find good examples?
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Recommended way to disable a service in Debian

Is there a "recommended way" to disable a service in Debian? (Disable = The service is installed but won't start automatically when the machine boots.) I know that you can update-rc.d -f service remove (which basically removes the links in rcX.d),…
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How do I specify NetworkService or LocalService for a Windows Service on a Domain Controller?

This question is a not duplicate of these existing questions: AUTHORITY\NetworkService does not exist (question is for Windows Server 2003 How can I run a process as "NT Authority\NetworkService"? (this is a scripting…
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Likely causes of NTPD dying unexpectedly and solutions

On a web application which uses s3 for physical document storage, we are experiencing issues with NTP continuously dying. This seems to happen roughly once or twice a day. There is very little information provided when this occurs, other than that…
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Is it reasonable to use Nagios to check that a service is NOT available?

Suppose I have a server with a private interface and a public interface. Public might have things like HTTP(S) servers, private might have MySQL and SSH. Obviously Nagios is useful to check that the services are running on their respective…
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Make systemd user service depend on system target

I have a user service in ~/.config/systemd/user/example.service like so: [Unit] Description=Example service After=network.target [Service] ExecStart=/bin/bash -c 'host google.com > /var/tmp/example' [Install] WantedBy=default.target The actual…
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What can cause ALL services on a server to go down, yet still responding to ping? and how to figure out

It has happened to me already twice within very few days that my server goes down completely, meaning http, ssh, ftp, dns, smtp, basically ALL services stop responding, as if the server had been turned off, except it still responds to ping, which is…
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Crontab to restart service

I am running a web server on an AWS EC2 micro instance. The instance has ~630MB of RAM. With time, I have several httpd processes and very little free RAM. When I restart the httpd service, I end up freeing about 350MB of RAM. I thought of having…
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MySQL: Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist

All of a sudden my local MySQL 5.5 server stopped running on my Windows XP SP3. I also have WAMP Apache and WAMP MySQL installed, but WAMP MySQL is not running. Error log shows: Can't start server: Bind on TCP/IP port: No such file or directory Do…
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How to stop git-daemon on debian

I'm running debian lenny server, and I've installed git on it. Now there is a git-daemon process (and appropriate opened port), but there is no /etc/init.d/git script that I could stop. I know there is /etc/sv/git-daemon/run but that doesn't help me…
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