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What is the difference between Red Hat SysV and Unix System V?

Prior to RHEL 7, their distributions were built on SysV, a manager that looks much like the legacy System V (init.d, rc, runlevels...). They changed it to systemd from RHEL 7. But what is the real ...
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Official definition of System V service management

Several sources online discusses the difference between Linux systemd service management facility and that of System V. While there's an official website for systemd, I found no official definition ...
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System V init service can't recongnise mongod

I have been following official guide for installing mongodb but it wont run as a service. When i try $ whereis mongod mongod: /usr/bin/mongod /etc/mongod.conf /usr/share/man/man1/mongod.1.gz but step ...
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If Microsoft is pushing systemd so hard, then why do I restart my services in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS WSL using System V? [closed]

I had to restart my apache2 server in WSL yesterday, and I was surprised that I couldn't use systemctl like I do on Ubuntu; instead having to revert to sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart. But I thought ...
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I cannot access XFCE when launched via LightDM

As a personal project I decided to start building a Linux From Scratch (System V Edition, 9.1) on a virtual machine. Everything went out correctly until the moment of entering the system through ...
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Equivalent of /dev/mqueue to enumerate SysV message queues

Linux supports two kinds of message queues: POSIX (i.e., those created by mq_open), and System V (i.e., those created by msgget). For POSIX message queues, mq_overview(7) documents that you can ...
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How to make an Ubuntu package with system V init script?

As the title says I want to make a ubuntu package that people could download with apt and I would like to set up the package with a System V script so that people can start and stop the service (like ...
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How differently from Linux kernel does a typical Unix kernel (System V, Free BSD, ...) implement processes and threads?

In my previous post, about the Linux kernel, the structure task_struct represents threads i.e. light weight processes, but not processes. processes are not represented by any structure, but by ...
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Are tid and tgid always the same as pid in the output of ps?

In manpage of ps tid TID the unique number representing a dispatchable entity (alias lwp, spid). This value may also appear as: a ...
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Debian start-stop-daemon equivalent in CentOS

I have a bash script that is written in a debian-based distribution (System-V) and I want to run it under CentOS 7. There is a part of the script that runs a command as a daemon like this: start-stop-...
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What are the relations between processes, kernel threads, lightweight processes and user threads in Unix? [closed]

Unix Internal by Vahalia have figures showing the relations between processes, kernel threads, lightweight processes, and user threads. This book gives most attention to SVR4.2, and it also explores ...
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System V - Respawn service but don't launch at boot

I'm trying to have a System V service relaunched on exit. EDIT: Should have precised that I'm using busybox init system instead of classic systemV I found that It could be done using /etc/inittab ...
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Why are System V message queues conforming POSIX NOT called POSIX message queues?

I know that there are (at least) two types of message queues: System V message queues and POSIX message queue. To my surprise, the man page also says that the msgget system call for System V message ...
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Why is rsyslog not listed when I run service?

I'm trying to learn about rsyslog. On one of my linux boxes, I think that rsyslog has been configured to run through systemd based on this output: >systemctl status rsyslog rsyslog.service - ...
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How to run a script at shutdown on Debian 9 or Raspbian 8 (Jessie)

I would like to execute this shell script at reboot and shut down: #!/bin/sh touch /test Its permissions are -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22 Feb 24 09:34 /etc/init.d/te1 And it has this links /etc/rc0....
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