I need know how run a service with start-stop-daemon with external script condition. Similar to what is done in a systemctl .service file, for example: NOTE: I need to do the same as the ExecCondition parameter does Regards. Answer Inside the /etc/init.d directory is the file with the service we want to modif…
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How to configure systemd *.service using XML file configuration
I’m making a cross-platform background process. For Windows, I have a XML configuration file, which has a service name, load type etc. On windows, program during execution just parses this file and creates the service, easy. Linux, on other hand, has this *.service config file, which doesn’t allow…
How to keep service script output from clogging up “messages”
I have a service on Centos7 that runs a script in /usr/local/sbin/restarthelp2.sh and outputs a tunnel check by checking the status of network connection. The output of this ends up in /var/log/messages and makes the file huge. I already have the output being sent to its own log file, how do I keep the output…
KeyError: Python script executed by linux service unable to access environment var
So I have a simple service on my Raspberry Pi that runs a Python script on boot. I have also set the env variable by running export OPSESPORT=XXXX. This is the service file: And in somefile.py, I have: Which leads to the following error when checking logs of the service: This is super weird since if I just ru…
Running mongod in shell works but it does not work as a service
I am running mongod under Linux OS. I wanted to change my data directory from the default /var/lib/mongodb to another location say /nfs/mongodb. When I run mongodb from shell(i.e. sudo /usr/bin/mongod –dbpath /nfs/mongodb) It works just fine. Next step, I tried to run mongodb as a service(sudo service m…
OpenSSL will not release file handles
I am writing a service (in C for CentOS) that must make lots of outbound SSL connections to a third party REST API via SSL. OpenSSL is used to create establishment of the secure connections with the remote server. After initialization of the ssl_connection I register the returned file descriptor with our epol…
How to restart a service using sytemd when it crashed based on only certain signals
Basically, I just want to achieve the same functionality as that of init.d’s monitor using systemd I have a service which runs as a daemon. If that service crashes due to some reason, I want to restart it using systemd. When I went through other questions and answers related to this, I found that we can…
Systemctl dependency failure, stop dependent services
I have 2 services a.service and b.service. a.service is shown b.service Now, when i start b.service, i’m sure a.service will be started. During runtime, suddenly someone messes with /home/admin/run.sh and systemd is unable to start a.service (also systemctl status a.service shows failed as status). Now …
How to run DNX ‘console app’ as a background service on Linux?
I’ve implemented a DNX (dnx451) ‘console app’ which is intended to run as a background service. On Windows I would just turn it into a Windows Service. What is the proper way to do this on Linux (for instance, Ubuntu)? EDIT: Found more info here: How to migrate a .NET Windows Service applica…
Linux display command works in terminal, but not in systemd service
I made a web app to turn off my computer’s screens, there are a few different technologies but it’s fairly simple: I have a html/js frontend that detects a button click (Screens On / Screens Off) which sends the option to the PHP backend via ajax The php then connects over a tcp port, sending the …