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On linux an unix-like systems is demon the designation of processes running in the background and providing certain services. Direct user intaractions with demons are not intended.

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Error running MySQL Daemon

I'm getting a bizarre error running my mysql daemon as the user 'mysql' here is what the command spews out, now I've checked and the instance isn't running already :S So, I have no idea why it's displaying this output: 120729 18:54:28 [Note] Plugin…
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Windirstat equivalent daemon for Linux server?

Is there a daemon-type application for Linux, that runs in the background, periodically maintaining a windirstat-type picture of the file system? Ideally it would have its own web interface, but I could obviously hack one together in PHP if not. Oh,…
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telling runit to pick up a new service immediately

As a happy user of runit - I am curious if it is possible to send a signal to the main process (or similar) telling it to look now at the service directory? the current behaviour is < 5 seconds (seems much faster most of the time) between scans for…
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Can daemontools (djbtools) be configured to start multiple processes as a single UNIX service?

If I have an application that requires two separate processes (front- and back-end) to run properly, is it possible to launch both of them from a single runscript and have daemontools supervise both of them and treat them as a single service? If so,…
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Upstart, no feedback whether starting failed

I have a daemon in /opt/xyz/bin/xyz. Unfortunately it cannot fork itself into background and will not be able to do so within the next half year. My problem is the following: Entering service xyz start just returns xyz start/running, process…
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Disable nginx, but keep it installed

I have nginx installed on CentOS and now I need it to be disabled (including on reboot), but keep it installed for further use. Should I only remove /etc/init.d/nginx file? Or is there more graceful way to do that?
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Ubuntu Daemon Best Practices?

I have a RingoJS webserver (runs atop Jetty) that is part a an Apache reverse proxy setup. I would like multiple Ringo processes to run autonomously in the background, startup automatically on reboot, etc. Basically, the same as Apache or…
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How To Install Git Daemon on Ubuntu 10.04 Linux with SparkleShare (and use it like Drop Box)

I tried following this doc... https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Git ...but unfortunately the "initialKeyFileName" step is not explained.
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Trouble running Python Celery as a daemon

I have Celery setup and running as a daemon on a Ubuntu EC2 instance. This morning I updated some of the tasks and tried to restart Celery and it wasn't working. After working at it a bit I found: Celery will start if I run the command sudo…
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How do I create an interactive daemon login?

I run a service on a debian/linux machine which runs at boot with a 'screen' session I can always attach to. I would like to create a username which I can run this service as. At the moment I use a 'regular' login account. I would like the added…
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MySQL Eating CPU Usage (Urgent)

Recently, I purged the cache files for my website and now MySQL is eating up CPU up to 100%. It slowly grows from 10% to 100% within 5min and so the server crashes. Fortunately, I turned stopped the service via #service mysql stop but each time I…
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How can I force GNU Screen to flush its logfile?

I am using Screen like this: screen -L -dm -S session1 -c "./game_server -options" to wrap around game servers. I log their output to a file and can send them input with: screen -r session1 -p0 -X "stuff \"this into input^M\"" The timeout between…
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What, if anything, is safe to symlink in /var?

We have plenty of space on a different mounted device. Since the /var partition stays relatively static in terms of size (around 8-10GB because of big logs that we need), I'd be fairly happy to simply make our current /var space 65% full rather than…
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Starting jetty service from SSH

I am trying to start jetty service from ssh using the command: ssh -t myhost "sudo /sbin/service jetty6 start" All works well, service comes up but after the command terminates and the connection closes down, the Jetty service goes down, too. If…
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How to set system environment variables for Linux services?

I need to setup environment variables for application servers. For example: ORACLE_HOME, ORACLE_SID, JAVA_OPTS, CATALINA_BASE. I know how to set system environment variables in Windows, but no ideas for Linux. I start application servers manually,…
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