The init.d directory contains a number of start/stop scripts for various services on your system.
Everything from acpid to x11-common is controlled from this directory.
Questions tagged [init.d]
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How do I stop Apache2 from automatically starting on boot?
How do I stop Apache2 from automatically starting on boot? I can't seem to find an option that disables the automatic start-up when I turn on the machine.
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What is the difference between /etc/init/ and /etc/init.d/?
What is the difference between /etc/init/ and /etc/init.d/?
More generally, what meaning does the .d suffix convey to a directory?
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Command to list services that start on startup?
Is there a command to list services that run on startup? I imagine it would involve parsing /etc/init.d/, and the various /etc/rc.* directories.
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Difference between systemctl init.d and service
I am new to linux and have been testing myself using an Amazon Lightsail instance (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS).
Going through the many guides I have came across, I see people using different commands to start/stop/restart/reload/status-check a service.…
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How to start and stop a service?
Possible Duplicate:
What’s the recommended way to enable / disable services?
Are there any other command to start stop restart service in ubuntu other than the below following.
service --status-all
service stop
sudosysv-rc-conf
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How to get rid of cloud-init?
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 image as my base box for vagrant. Unfortunately this base box contains cloud-init which causes many problems during starting-up the machine: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/3860
I'm not using my machine in the…
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Can't start mysql - mysql respawning too fast, stopped
Today I did a fresh install of ubuntu 12.04 and went about setting up my local development environment. I installed mysql and edited /etc/mysql/my.cnf to optimise InnoDB but when I try to restart mysql, it fails with a…
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How do I set which PostgreSQL version is to be used by default?
I have 2 different versions of PostgreSQL installed on my system (Ubuntu Lucid):
/var/lib/postgresql/8.4
/var/lib/postgresql/9.0
By default, when I run a PostgreSQL command such as createdb or psql, the 9.0 version is used.
How do I configure my…
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uninstall init.d update-rc.d remove
I installed an init.d script with this command:
sudo update-rc.d mongodb defaults 98 02
I want to uninstall it, so I'm planning on running:
sudo update-rc.d -f mongodb remove
I'm concerned about the start and stop conditions in the installation…
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How to correctly add a custom daemon to init.d?
I've got a 3-rd party proprietary application server daemon which can be started and stopped by couple of command lines. I need this daemon to start when the system starts up and correctly stopped on system shutting down. How do I correctly…
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How to automatically restart Tomcat7 on system reboots?
I have installed Tomcat 7 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS which runs on an Amzon EC2 instance. Now I wish tomcat should restart automatically on system reboot.
I read this blog which suggest adding below script to /etc/init.d/tomcat7:
# Tomcat auto-start
#
#…
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How do I set up a service?
I have a script that I would like to run as a service on my Ubuntu Server 11.04 headless box. That is, I want to have the correct files under /etc/init.d/ and to be able to control it via the service command.
Is there any guide available that will…
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haproxy doesn't start
Installed a new Ubuntu 10.04 server and logging in as root I installed haproxy using apt-get.
I can run haproxy directly as a daemon but when I do /etc/init.d/haproxy start nothing happens.. not even an error message.
netstat -a shows nothing is…
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How to prevent Tor from starting automatically on Ubuntu server?
How do I stop Tor from starting automatically on startup? It is Ubuntu Server so I don't have any GUI.
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Failed to start .service: Unit .service not found
I created a super basic init.d script for my python bot:
#!/bin/bash
# chkconfig: 2345 20 80
# description: Description comes here....
# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions
start() {
echo "starting torbot"
python…
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