Questions tagged [startup]
This tag is related to startup of servers or services.
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Disable a service from starting at all runlevels?
I have a service foo which currently starts at runlevel 3 and above. How can I stop it from doing so, without using update-rc.d foo stop 3 ., which (if I understand it correctly) would turn off the ...
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How do I get Apache to startup at bootime on Linux?
I have installed Apache 2 from source on my Linux box. apachectl -k start works just fine, but how do I get Apache to start at boot time?
This is on a Red Hat Linux distribution:
Linux <hostname&...
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When are scripts inside etc/profile.d executed?
I added some scripts from root inside etc/profile.d to execute at startup time. But when will these scripts be executed if I login into system as a non root user? I want to start LDAP-server at start-...
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Launch Nginx on startup
I was able to install and run nginx, and passenger but i'm not able to have nginx come up whenever i reboot my server. To start the nginx process i just type in sudo /opt/nginx/sbin/nginx. From my ...
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Set service StartType to Automatic - Delayed
Using Set-Service, I'm able to change the StartType of my services between the accepted values of Boot, System, Automatic, Manual, Disabled. Using services.msc, I'm able to set some services to ...
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Start program on computer startup when nobody is logged on and show the window when someone does log on (OS: Windows)
I have a program that is launched on system startup using Task Scheduler on Windows Server 2012. The program must start even if the computer reboots automatially.
Administrator is the account used to ...
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Task scheduler scheduled task at startup not working
I have scheduled a task to be run at system startup. But its not working. When I run the task manually, it is working. Below are the screenshots of the settings.
What have I done wrong here? This ...
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Domain login very slow 10+ minutes
We are racking our brains trying to figure this problem out an are currently stuck!
Basically we are having issues with some users taking ages to log in in the mornings, some times up to 20 minutes, ...
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Fastest time to get an EC2 instance running
I am considering moving from a VPS to EC2.
EC2 is elastic and so is its pricing; I could boot my instance on demand, then let it shut down if it isn't active by the end of some hourly period.
How ...
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Standard or best way to keep alive process started by init.d
I'm looking for a standard way or best practice to keep a daemon started by an init.d shell script alive.
Or even better, is there a way to keep it alive directly from /etc/init.d?
Specifically, I ...
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What are the correct permissions for /etc/init.d/ scripts?
What are the correct permissions for /etc/init.d/ scripts and what chmod options sets them?
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How do I launch a process as a specific user at startup on OS X?
I would like to run a script as a particular user on startup (not on login). I thought a launchd LaunchDaemon would do it, but 'man launchd' says:
"If you wish your service to run as a certain user, ...
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Windows services not starting automatically?
We've had some nasty time sync problems on our Windows Server 2008 R2 servers lately.
I traced this back to something very simple: the Windows Time Service was not started! The time can't possibly ...
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How to manage a global VM startup order across the whole datacenter?
Suppose you have a fully virtualized VMware infrastructure: ESXi, vCenter, vMotion, HA, DRS, the whole package.
Inside, you have lots of VMs, which at any given time may reside on one host or another ...
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Run a command on Windows startup (not login!)
How do you tell Windows to run a command on each system startup?
I have a large number of servers on which I will need to run a command on system startup that makes a non-persistent configuration ...
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Single Person ISV, What Type of Server Hardware do you Recommend? [closed]
I am planning on taking a small product of mine live soon.
I was wondering what kind of hardware you would recommend for a new small website.
Is using the 'Cloud'(Amazon) a good option. Or is it ...
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How can I improve my Windows XP start up time?
Windows boot time is pretty good, but it takes forever to get to my desktop once I login. Whats the best way to find out whats happening? I only have 3 items in my Startup folder, but the admins at ...
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Tomcat won't start - how to check that port 8080 is not in use
Tomcat won't start, and it has worked perfectly before. I suspect something else is running on port 8080. I am running Windows Vista. How do I check that nothing else is using port 8080?
I have ...
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EC2 Startup - How to Tell When Windows Ready?
I am working with Amazon EC2, and I have some Windows AMIs backed with EBS. When I launch a new instance from an EBS snapshot, the EC2Config service prepares the Windows machine for me. I know when ...
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Cygwin startup error /usr/bin/id: cannot find name for group ID
I use cygwin at work to get quick access to unix tools and as an ssh terminal. I recently installed some new Cygwin packages and now when I try and open a terminal it is very slow and gives the ...
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Getting shell script to run as a daemon on CentOS?
EDIT: For some reason half of my post got truncated, not sure what happened. I will update soon and will post that it is updated here at the top.
EDIT: I have updated the post again, sorry for the ...
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When a startup should hire a sys admin?
The startup is growing and you have now 5 full-time devs on your team. You have an older application which is up and running in production and a new web application almost ready to be released. You ...
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mysql doesn't start after relocating data dir
I have a web-server where the default installation of mysql places all its database files in /var/lib/mysql. The partition where /var is mounted has only 2GB of space, so after running in space ...
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What does userinit.exe do?
When Windows starts, by default userinit.exe runs. What exactly does this program do?
I know what it does in general - e.g., initiates the logon script - but I am looking for the full details of all ...
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Delay Windows (member) Server start-up until Domain Controller is available
What is the most efficient way do delay (or pause) the cold start-up of Windows domain member servers until a domain server is available?
There are ways to delay the start-up of a server , but it is a ...
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httpd service will not start on boot under CentOS 6
I am having trouble configuring a CentOS 6 Vagrant setup to start the Apache service on boot. I have tried using chkconfig and the OS seems to just ignore it.
When I run sudo chkconfig --list httpd, ...
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Centos 7. Freeradius fails to start on boot due to priority
I was messing around with FreeRADIUS and MySQL (MariaDB) and it seems FreeRADIUS service can't start properly on startup. But it starts fine using root user or in debug mode (radiusd -X) and works ...
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Error starting postgresql server on ubuntu
I recently stopped the postgresql database (that was working perfectly), and after a couple of days, when I try to start it, I get the errors:
2011-01-03 23:56:27 CLST LOG: could not translate host ...
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Why is access to my database very slow? [closed]
I have a mysql database that used to work perfectly fine, but now it is dead slow on startup. When I type in
$> mysql -u foo bar
I get the following usual message for about 30 seconds before I ...
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control startup order of several servers
I'm looking for recommendations on how to control the startup order of a rack of machine should they all need to be booted back up. In more detail:
Group1:
DHCP/DNS/LDAP Server
Group2:
NFS ...
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Windows Group Policy Startup script is not executed at startup
I have written a .cmd file which calls ten different .exe files. I am able to run this .cmd file locally, on my server, and it works fine.
When I use [gpedit.msc] (Group Policy Editor) for "Computer ...
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Automatically start docker container's linked dependencies
I run gitlab in a docker container and it separates its dependencies (MySQL, Redis, Mailserver) quite nicely into separate docker containers. Running them is not a problem, I start them in reverse ...
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How to test /etc/rc.d/rc.local to make sure a command will start successfully at boot?
I'm using tyrantmanager to manage several instances of Tokyo Tyrant. It's working fine.
I want to get it to start at boot, so I add the following command into /etc/rc.local:
/usr/local/bin/...
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Tools/servers/services to run a web startup office [closed]
For a dev who doubles up as a sysadmin in small web startup, what services/servers/devices do you recommend running?
I am also open to best-practices suggestions
To get the ball rolling- here are ...
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Need a way to run a script on windows boot up prior to a user logging in
I need to run a custom script which runs when Windows boots up.I know its possible to run it when a user logs in but I want to run it when the system reboots i.e. prior to a user logging in.
The OS in ...
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SSH: How to start a process that won't end after system reboot?
Is there a way to do this so when I reboot my linux server the process will reopen on startup?
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How to schedule VMs to startup and shutdown
I'm running several VMs (Mainly windows XP) on a 2008 server under Hyper-V.
I'd like to automatically schedule some of these machines to startup and shutdown according to a schedule. To limit ...
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Changing MySQL startup timeout ([fail] reported although mysql properly started)
I've created a script to cleanup InnoDB storage engine. Everything works fine except that creating the ib_logfile0 and ib_logfile1 files when innodb_log_file_size is set to 1GB takes a while which ...
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Grub 1.99 default?
I have been running into an issue. I have my grub set to run the only OS on power on, and the BIOS to automatically restart the machine if it dies. The issue is that if the machine dies (from say a ...
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Why does rc.local require absolute paths? How can I run a script at startup that doesn't use them?
I have a script that runs at startup from rc.local in CentOS. This script contains a command to compile my erlang project using a third party build command called rebar. The rebar line fails to ...
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Mysql ndb cluster - node restart
I just setup a mysql cluster on a fairly decent baby (IBM x3650 M3) with 24GB memory, xeon 6core, SAS 6Gbps HDD. Running Debian Lenny 5. 64bits.
Ndb version is 7.1.9a. Our database size on MyISAM is ...
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Windows XP hanging on login screen
I have been given two Eee PC 100HA to manage for some people, they are both running the same hardware and XP home but one is having some strange problems with logging on.
The main problem is that it ...
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Linux: user defined daemons/services
I'm looking for a framework/library/environment so an ordinary user can set up it's own server processes. These processes should run under his uid as any other user process.
However the definition of ...
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How to run a batch script before the windows Logon prompt appears?
I'm looking for a way of running a batch script once (and only once) on boot before the Windows XP Logon prompt appears on screen.
What is the easiest way to do this?
Also, I need to be able to run ...
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How to sequence a proper shutdown and startup of web services with systemd?
I am trying to structure the shutdown and startup of Apache, PHP-FPM and MariaDB services using systemd:
These are the additional configuration files in /etc/systemd/system folder:
# httpd.service
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Is there reference documentation for CloudInit?
Ubuntu's CloudInit package is very useful; however, the only documentation I've found on all of the available options is in their examples: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~cloud-init-dev/cloud-init/trunk/...
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Starting a daemon automatically from init.d
I installed vnstats to see bandwidth statistics, I copied an init.d file tempalte, I placed it in init.d directory, it works ok to access this file and do start/restart/status, but this file should ...
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Debian 8 Jessie not displaying startup services and messages
Recently I setup a new box with Debian 8 Jessie (I used Debian 6 and 7 on other boxes). I was disappointed to see the startup messages only on 2 or 3 text lines. No more list of startup services ...
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Run shell script at linux boot but only one time per day
Run shell script at linux boot (Start up) but only one time per day , How can i do it ?
I am using Redhat enterprise linux 5
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/etc/rc.local not being run on Ubuntu Desktop Install
I have been trying to get sphinx to run at boot, so I added some lines to /etc/rc.local but nothing happens when I start up. If i run it manually it works however.
/etc/init.d/rc.local start works ...
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