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A Linux service is an application (or set of applications) that runs in the background waiting to be used, or carrying out essential tasks.

A Linux service is an application (or set of applications) that runs in the background waiting to be used, or carrying out essential tasks.

They are set on different runlevels or same level or layer according to the program and style managing the services on the system.

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what is rc service (or rc.service)?

running $sudo systemctl status rc in my Ubuntu v18.04 I notices there is such a service: ● rc.service Loaded: masked (/dev/null; bad) Active: inactive (dead) can anyone tell me what it does?
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Is service stop synchronous or asynchronous?

I did sudo service ... stop before shutting down the machine remotely, over SSH, but then I realized I didn't know if stop is synchronous or not and I wondered if I was not too fast to shut down the Ubuntu machine. So are my fears based on a wrong…
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What is entomb service?

On many GNU/Linux systems (Arch, Centos) I see the following entry in /etc/services file: entomb 775/tcp What is entomb? I searched the internet for information about it but there's very little information.
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I can't find when apparmor start under sysV

I run a sysV linux distro: Devuan (which is a Debian with sysV instead of systemD) I do: /usr/sbin/service --status-all [ ? ] alsa-utils [ - ] anacron [ + ] apparmor [ + ] bluetooth [ - ] bootlogd [ - ] bootlogs [ - ] bootmisc.sh […
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Why do I have 2 SSH services?

The command: sudo netstat -ntulp gives me: Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:3306 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1263/mysqld tcp 0…
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Is it safe to disable hddtemp.service

I'm currently trying to reduce the boot time on Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya with systemd and saw that the service hddtemp is taking quite long to boot. So im wondering if its safe to disable it.
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smartd.service doesn't seem to work after reboot, only after manual restart

EDIT: There doesn't seem to be anything wrong. The reason that the test email wasn't sent out was likely due to that the computer had not established an internet connection as the service tried to send it. But when I manually restarted the service,…
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who controls a linux service?

How do I quickly find out who controls some linux service? I'm tired of poking around /etc to find out if initd, upstart, systemd or supervisord is controlling some service.
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How to find in Linux if mule is running

When I try to get the status of Mule service in linux by this: service mule status I get this: Usage: /etc/init.d/mule {start|stop|restart} Apparently, mule service doesn't support status. How can I see that Mule is running then?
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Launch custom service without sudo on RHEL 8.8

We have created a custom application using .net core 6.0 and the binaries of this application are kept at /usr/bin/IMIC. It is running as a service on RHEL 8.8. The service file IMIC.service is located at /etc/systemd/system/. The contents of…
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Service setgui running as nobody

I am having a weird issue with one of my services that I’ve setup to run as an AD user and user group using parameters in the conf file, setuid and setgui. When I run the service with setuid only everything works fine. The moment I add setguid, I…
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cups-browsed service, thunderbird and others apps cannot start due to "libgio-2.0.so.0"

cups-browsed service, thunderbird and others apps cannot start due to "libgio-2.0.so.0" what to do? elias@eliasc:~/Downloads/_LINUX_PKGS$ thunderbird XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib/thunderbird/libmozgtk.so: libgio-2.0.so.0: failed to map…
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How can I make a service to run on port 80 in Linux? (Details)

I'm using aws ec2 to run a Linux server. I'm running perforce on it which listens on port 1666 by default, but I want it to listen to port 80. If I set p4d to listen on port 80, it fails saying it's in use by tcp/ip something. I don't access the…
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How to run ipython notebook as a service

I have ipython notebook running properly but I'd like to run it as a service (start, stop, restart) so that I don't have to start it manually every time I login with SSH. How can I do that?
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service pptpd shows "is not running" but why it is still working?

In my ubuntu server 14.04, I start a pptpd service, when I check it status: ubuntu@server:~$ service pptpd status * /usr/sbin/pptpd is not running But it actually is wokring: ubuntu@server:~$ ps aux | grep pptpd root 1053 0.0 0.0 10680 …
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