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Ubuntu 10.04 on vServer: SSHD fails to come up after apt-get upgrade

I have a vServer running Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS in a Parallels container. Yesterday, I updated packages using apt-get upgrade. After the upgrade, I could not longer log into the machine using SSH. I have retrieved /var/log/syslog using the…
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Oneiric's init (upstart) taking up 99% cpu on openvz

I'm having a problem with a openvz vps which came with Ubuntu Natty (11.04) and I recently upgraded to Oneiric (11.10). After a reboot I found the init process stuck at ~99% cpu and the loadavg floating around 1.0. I've read about past issues with…
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Redhat 5 Upgrade / Sphinx Search Init Startup Hangs

I recently upgrade a VM to Redhat 5 and moved Sphinx Search to that server. For some reason when I try to start Sphinx, the startup script fails to push the searchd process to the background. I created a test script with a minimal version of the…
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How can I find out what is causing init(8) to launch a process?

I installed Google Desktop for Linux and want to prevent it from running without necessarily deleting all its files. I managed to find and disable the file in /etc/cron.hourly, but gdl_box is still being launched by process 1: 1 5199 5199 5199 ?…
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Centos 5.5 won't boot anymore; the dreaded "Could not find filesystem /dev/root" error

Normally I have no problems finding my answers online but I have been trying to fix my downed server for 3 days now and I am no step further. The server in question is a Centos 5.5 machine running an openvz-kernel, 2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.028stab070.5…
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Is it possible to get systemd to monitor a process that it does not start?

Some of our startup scripts have an ExecStart line that runs a curl command to start jobs from our Jenkins build server. Systemd does not know anything about the job that is started as a result of the curl command and therefore cannot give us a…
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How to mount a root aufs in Red Hat / Fedora Core?

I'm trying to set up a virtual machine running Red Hat EL (actually Scientific Linux, but same difference) where the root file system is protected and not writable. I'd like to accomplish this with a union mount using aufs. That is, a writable file…
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Is systemd right for this task?

Currently, there's a fairly complex Python script that manages several dozen processes across a few servers. Each individual process has the same setup/requirements: Main process must come up and be monitored Helper network process must come up and…
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init never reaping zombie/defunct processes

On my Fedora Core 9 webserver with kernel 2.6.18.8, init isn't reaping zombie processes. This would be bearable if it wasn't for the process table eventually reaching an upper limit where no new processes can be allocated. Sample output of ps -el |…
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'systemctl restart service' not working on CentOS 7

I have a custom service managed by an init script in /etc/init.d and, after upgrading to CentOS 7, with systemd, 'systemctl restart service' is not working correctly. I need to execute two times 'systemctl restart service' to make it restart (the…
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Which init system is main on particular system?

I have installed application with several init scripts as for dpkg -L application shows. For example: /etc/init/application.conf /etc/init.d/application /usr/systemd/applaication.service But i use just service application start for start? How…
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Disabling MariaDb on Debian jessie doesn't work

I have MariaDb installed on Debian jessie. I need to remove it from automatic system startup. I tried recommended commands but they did not work: root@debian:/home/gameboy# systemctl disable mysql Synchronizing state for mysql.service with sysvinit…
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Why corrupted rc.sysinit file create syslogd error

During boot the system hangs, and the last message while it hangs is: Starting system logger: Can't open or create /var/run/syslogd.pid. Can't write pid. After a while I discovered that /etc/init/rc.sysinit was corrupted - the first line…
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rsyslogd wont start correctly on Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS while using the Init-Script

somehow my init-script for rsyslogd does not work. I tried to enable rsyslogd to accept logging-data on udp:514. If I start my rsyslogd via Init-Script, no logging-data is forwarded. Not even syslog! And no port is binded. netstat -plantu | grep 514…
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init / inittab respawn (count number of times it occurs)

I added the following line in my /etc/inittab to respawn a program if it crashes. #test must always run. aa:2345:respawn:/home/pi/test/test Is there a way to know how many times the init/respawn event occurs ? Is there a log file for inittab ? I'm…
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