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A service (also daemon or server) is a programme that constantly runs in the background. It usually services requests. If you are asking about online services, please use a different tag.

A service (also daemon or server) is a programme that constantly runs in the background. It usually services requests. If you are asking about online services, please use a different tag.

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How do you automate enabling a service on a debian filesystem without booting into it?

I want to have a custom service that I've placed into /lib/systemd/system start at boot, but th eonly way I know how at the moment is to run systemctl enable myservice.service but I would like to be able to do this without booting into the actual…
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Service doesn't start when using chef

I've written a script which I trigger as a service. When I call service myservice start the service starts fine. However, when the same service is triggered using chef, the service doesnt start. My chef service code looks like this service…
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Granting service control manager access permission to user outside of administrator group

I have a user outside of administrator group. How can I grant service control manager access permission for that (specific) user? It's like SC_MANAGER_ALL_ACCESS from the following…
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Cannot administer services on remote Windows machine due to security issue

I have a Windows 2008 machine A with Administrator account X. I have another Windows 2008 machine B with Administrator account Y. Both machines have an account Z, with same username and password on both. Account Z is in the local Administrators…
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What is "Radan HTTP"?

There is a service using the 8088 port on a Linux server I use. It identifies itself as radan-http, and indeed it's on the IANA port list. It is apparently being used by Nginx. But, despite a fair amount of searching, I haven't been able to find out…
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How do I stop IIS7.5 starting by default?

I am doing a lot of work using the XAMPP stack, but every time I restart my machine, I have to manually stop IIS before I can start Apache. I can't find a service for IIS to configure not to start automatically. How can I prevent IIS from starting…
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Stopping Windows service does not kill processes (service uses ant)

I have a Windows service on Windows Server 2008 R2 that I set-up using instsrv on the srvany.exe executable. The three values in the Parameters key are set as follows: AppDirectory C:\selenium-grid Application C:\ant\bin\ant.bat AppParameters…
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Why can a user grant themselves the Log On As A Service right?

This article describes the (relatively laborious) steps you should go through to grant an Active Directory user the Log On As A Service right. However, if I install a service and manually specify my AD account's logon credentials (service…
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CentOS 5.5: service not stopped on shutdown

I have wrote script /etc/init.d/xxx which start/stop my service on CentOS 5.5. When I call 'service start xxx' or 'service stop xxx' everything works fine. But when I restart my machine, I see in the logs that on shutdown the service was not…
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What is MonkeyCom on port 9898?

In /etc/services on a few machines I've checked, port 9898 is associated with a service called MonkeyCom: monkeycom 9898/udp # MonkeyCom monkeycom 9898/tcp # MonkeyCom The first reference I found in a google search for MonkeyCom says…
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How to disable System service from listening on port 80 in Windows Server 2003

I'm trying to install a service on a Windows Server 2003 machine which is supposed to listen on port 80 but it fails to start because some other service is already listening on that port. So far I've disabled the IIS Admin service and the HTTP SSL…
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How to create a windows service in XP

How can I turn a given normal application into a Windows service under Windows XP? EDIT: This is a server application, so it has no GUI and does not require any input or output.
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"Workstation" and "Server" Services Keep Stopping

On one (or more) of our Windows Server 2003 R2 servers the "Server" and "Workstation" services keep stopping. There's nothing in the event viewer that would indicate why (no errors). I recall seeing it once on one server but after I started the…
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WinRM-Service is running but can't be reached

I have a virtual testing environment for developing scripts. As .NET isn't capable of all the possibilities PowerShell offers I use Remote PowerShell Runspaces. My problem is now, that I can't reach the WinRM-Service on the FileShare-Memberserver,…
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start systemd service on start of requirement

I have a service which depends on mysql.service via Requires=. This is necessary, because the service crashes, if mysql is not available. Executing systemctl restart mysql works fine. It stops my service first, restarts mysql and starts my service…
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