The init.d directory contains a number of start/stop scripts for various services on a Linux system.
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Auto SSH with OpenWRT Router to AWS EC2 Server
I've got a OpenWRT router that I'm trying to make a persistent reverse ssh tunnel to an Amazon AWS server. The issue is my ISP changes my public IP so in order to ssh to it, I have to use port knocking to prevent every IP from seeing the ssh port. …

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Autostart a node.js script using init.d in Debian
I have a little node application on a server (node mailer) that I run by going to its source folder and executing npm start. I figured the best way to run this automatically would be to create a my_script.sh file and drop it in the init.d directory…

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WildFly init.d scripts for SUSE Linux
I want to start and stop WildFly 15 on Linux SUSE 11 together with the machine. I'm not expert in Linux and this is my first experience with SUSE. I found WildFly comes with init.d scripts for 2 Linux distributions: Debian and Red…

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/etc/rc* not running on Ubuntu 18.04 in Docker. Cannot start cron on boot
I can't seem to convince the cron (or any other) service to start with my Ubuntu container. I'm sure I'm missing something simple.
I've tried using both update-rc.d and /etc/rc.local but no joy.
In this example Dockerfile I'm also trying to get…

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Shell file skips commands when run at boot using init.d?
I'm running Armbian Linux and trying to execute a shell file at boot. The file runs perfectly when I execute it through the command line after boot. However, it skips my Python commands (which are supposed to send animations to an OLED screen) when…

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Ubuntu Server init.d - testing if value is greater than 1
I am writing an init.d script and am looking to test if a returned value is greater than 1. What would be the correct syntax for 'greater than'?
mc_status() {
if ps ax | grep -ci 'CanaryMod.jar' > 0
then
echo…

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init.d script fails to redirect stdin stderr of executable and gets the wrong process ID
I have a simple python script test.py:
#!/user/bin/python
print "Why is it not redirecting?"
Then I have a init.d script where I'm trying to do ./test.py &> logfile.log & PID=$! except what happens is that the PID is wrong, it prints to my shell…

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How to execute a privileged action from a CGI script
I want to restart a linux service from a shell CGI script, which obviously requires root rights. I'm kind of out of options that I know of:
Giving root access to my web server seems very dangerous
Using setuid on my CGI script doesn't work and…

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Can't download a file via os.system('scp (...)') whithin a python script launched via a init script
I'm trying to download a remote file using the scp command called by os.system() in a Python script (scp.py) started as a service by a procd init script.
This script is running on OpenWrt 15.05.1 (which uses BusyBox to implement the shell…

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Hudson does not want to start in Opensuse anymore. Empty pid file
I installed using the hudson.rpm as specified on the site provided. I also installed ant after starting hudson, for some reason when i try to run
/etc/init.d/hudson start
it just fails saying
Starting Hudson startproc: Empty pid
file…

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Centos 7 - service from /etc/systemd/system/san.service not running with systemctl start san.service
I followed instructions from this link: https://www.thegeekdiary.com/centos-rhel-7-how-to-make-custom-script-to-run-automatically-during-boot/
But I have issue because my service is not being run.
I created one script startSanic2.sh which invokes…

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Centos 7 - Script not runing from init d - manually with & it starts in background
I have created script in init.d
/etc/init.d/startSanic
#!/bin/bash
cd /opt/horses
./startSanic.sh &
startSanic is with permissions 777
startSanic.sh is with permissions 755
I intentionally created two scripts because only if I start script…

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How to put python3 manage.py runserver in a Bash Script
Here is my Bash script it's very simple. I added it to the init/d folder so it works upon rebooting my computer. I create directories and so that part of the script is working; However my server won't run.
I'm trying to avoid having to type…

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How can i allow a self made jar file the permission for reading and writing while autostart?
first at all i want to say, i'm not a studied programmer.
I have written a server application and want to start these server automatically if i reboot a raspberry pi (operating System is debian).
My server application creates folders for security…

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Script in init.d not executing
I'm trying to send a Slack notification of a server's IP address on startup. I'm running Ubuntu 18.04. The script works fine when ran from command line (creates a log file & send the Slack message). It's placed at /etc/init.d/iptoslack.sh, and I've…

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