Questions tagged [daemon]
Daemons are programs which run in the background in multitasking operating systems. On Unix-like operating systems the names of many daemons end in the letter "d".
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How to add a Mac user account to the deamon group — in order to install FileMaker Server in order to r&w my own data with a shell script in FMS?
I need to run shell scripts from within FileMaker server.
The default installation creates a "fmserver" user account and user group. With that user, sudo is not possible (even after adding ...
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How to keep two local hard drives in sync on Linux?
I have an old hard drive and basically clone it to a new hard drive using Grsync or Timeshift. Because the older hard drive is likelier to fail, I'd like to use the newer one as my in-use hard drive ...
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Disable stdout buffering in systemd, how to make it print everything?
On Debian, when I ask for service status, it only prints out a few lines:
sudo service tor status
CPU: 3ms
Dec 15 17:57:27 systemd[1]: Starting tor.service - Anonymizing overlay network for ...
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Pulseaudio not working Debian 12
Pulseaudio 16.1 doesn't work on Debian 12 using no GUI and only the TTY terminal.
Upon checking, the daemon is running. Tried apt-get purge pulseaudio and reinstalled it, same problem persists. No ...
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Transmission on Ubuntu: daemon is running but transmission-remote says Unauthorized User?
I installed Transmission on Ubuntu 20.04 with sudo apt install transmission-daemon.
After starting the service, when I try to get the status with transmission-remote -si I get:
Unauthorized User
I ...
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do service/system account used for running daemon (webservers, databases) need to have home
I created a system account on Fedora using following commands
useradd -r -s /bin/false sysacct
Then created a directory and gave permissions to sysacct
mkdir /var/sysacct
chown sysacct:sysacct /var/...
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Could Git Bash run daemon process periodically?
I have this myscript.sh act as a performance monitor in Windows Server. To do so, I'm trying my best here to avoid using WSL and using Git Bash to run the script but the problem is the script just ...
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How does WSL/WSL2/WSLg work without systemd?
As I've understood it, systemd is Linuxes' "master"-daemon, managing all other processes right after it has been started up and run its init-function.
Since I had this (now resolved) issue, ...
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The ezstream service quits unexpectedly
I have Icecast started at boot, running in the background, thus:
# systemctl status icecast2
● icecast2.service - LSB: Icecast2 streaming media server
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/icecast2; ...
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How do I start a daemon on startup with SysV init?
I use MX Linux, which uses SysV init.
Some softwares (like mullvad-vpn in my case) made for SystemD have their daemons not launching on startup. I can launch it with sudo service mullvad-daemon start ...
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Build tool spawns a daemon that does not close its standard output. How can I prevent this from stalling my shell pipeline?
I am using a (closed-source) vendor-specific build tool (Microsemi Designer, an
FPGA layout tool). I invoke it from a shell script (highly simplified):
... # Setup
/opt/.../designer SCRIPT:my_script....
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Something kills Explorer
On the PC of my customer (MS Windows 10 pro 21H1 fully updated) there is some process that temporarily kills Explorer (the file manager daemon). As well, Explorer restores itself in few seconds.
How ...
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What is the difference between transmission and transmission-daemon?
I have watched some tutorials on how to install torrent program on raspberry.
I have seen somebody installs like this:
sudo apt install transmission
Someone installs it like this:
sudo apt install ...
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What's the difference between: a program, process, job, service, daemon, script, command? [closed]
Can someone clearly explain what's the difference between these terms?
Helpful previous answers:
What's the difference between an Application, a Process, and a Service?
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Avahi gtk style provider error/ avahi-daemon won't start
So, just got a Raspberry Pi, and I'm trying to connect to it via mDNS.
However, when trying to start avahi-daemon on my WSL2 kali-linux distribution
sudo service avahi-daemon start
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