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NFS server not serving share after reboot

I have two Linode containers. Box A is our general purpose web server. It occasionally needs to access Box B, which is set up as an NFS server. When Box B reboots, Box A is unable to access any NFS shares no matter what I do. After several hours of…
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Process monitoring services

I'm looking into different services that help keep processes up and running (auto-restart in the event of a crash). Which ones do you prefer and what are your commends/suggestions? Here are a few methods I've found: respawn in…
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Is it safe to change runlevel inside a cron script?

I want to do a nightly "hotclone" of server A to server B. It's recommended that server B be running minimal daemons during this action so I want to create a "minimal" runlevel which pretty much only runs sshd and switch to/from that runlevel in…
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systemd to wait for command to complete before restart/shutdown or killing other processes

When I'm initiating "reboot" or "poweroff", systemd is killing all the processes, but I need it to wait for one particular application to finish before stopping other services. Actually, I want Virtualbox vm clean shutdown/savestate. Have no problem…
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chkconfig equivalent for upstart jobs on CentOS6

On RHEL6/CentOS6 what is the upstart way to: chkconfig add my-svc chkconfig my-svc on Explanation: I have written an /etc/init/xvc0.conf job. I can do start xvc0 on the CLI, but after reboot initctl list gives me ... xvc0 stop/waiting ... So…
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init script that logs output of the script

How can this be done? I know it's pretty simple and includes appending something like & or &> to the actual command that starts the init script. But, what is the best approach and how can it be ensured that the init script detaches itself, suppose…
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How to daemonize servers on Ubuntu?

I've got a couple of servers on my Ubuntu that need to be restart-proof daemonized. How can I do that with generic init first process? Should I swap to upstart or some other replacement?
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Init.d vs Cron - which to use?

I'm writing a silly little script to email people when a (Debian Lenny) server boots. Right now I've set it up as an init.d script using update-rc.d, but then I realized I could have just used cron jobs instead. Is it better to use cron jobs for…
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Where do they belong? "ifconfig eth0 up" & "dhclient"

I have a minimal linux installation. The problem is that in order to access the web I have to issue ifconfig eth0 up dhclient after every restart. Where is the canonical place of these commands on an everyday linux system? Or rather where should I…
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How to review the init script output on a dedicated server?

I have rented a dedicated server, running Debian stable. Is the startup output that you would see on the screen (if you had one) stored anywhere? If not, is there a non-intrusive way to make that data available after the next reboot? Or how else do…
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How to install init-checkconf for upstart?

Upstart is installed, but init-checkconf is not. Any ideas how to get both? $ sudo init-checkconf sudo: init-checkconf: command not found $ sudo dpkg --get-selections | grep upstart upstart install $ uname -a Linux VM1…
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Linux equivalent of OS X "Launchd", with respect to use by non-root users?

Is there a good way for non-root users to start "managed" processes? In this case, I am using managed" to describe a process that starts up when the user logs in, is monitored by some sort of process supervisor (like init), restarted if it fails,…
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open-iscsi does not login into targets on boot

We have a Debian Lenny server with open-iscsi that's configured to log into a target automatically: hostname:~# grep \\.startup /etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf node.startup = automatic hostname:~# grep \\.startup…
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whats the difference between sigkill and sigabrt?

The other day I experienced a halt in my python application with sigabrt, but I knew that the init should send a sigkill signal. I'm curious what's the difference between them, if any? Can someone give me some resources to read more about this?
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Managing per-user rc.d init scripts

I want to delegate SysV init scripts to each user. Like the SysV init, each item in ${HOME}/rc.d starting with S will be launched on server start-up with the start argument. The same for the server shut-down with the one starting with K and with the…
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