Questions tagged [services]
On Windows, services are processes running regardless of users logging in. They provide access and features to different programs or processes. On Mac OS X, services are menu bar and context menu items available from any application that can act on a user's selection, like text or files.
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When windows service is installed under different user it requires manual "Log On" is this expected?
using golang example I created windows service application, as mentioned in documentation I configured with service user and password. I'm using a batch script that will execute
@REM install ...
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Failed to start LSB: This service starts and stops VMware services
Have upgraded Ubuntu-18.04 LTS to 20.04 LTS using below commands on command line.
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade --yes
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade --yes
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Service "dmwappushsvc" in Windows 10 (other service name)
When we click Win + R, type services.msc, we have various local services in the list.
In Windows 10, I am looking for a service called "dmwappushsvc". Unfortunately, I did not find this ...
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Systemctl Socket Talking to the Wrong Process
I'm trying to run a Minecraft server on VM running Debian 10. I've set up the server to run as a service and am attempting to use a socket listening to a FIFO based on this question that last saw ...
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How do services like discord prevent IP grabbing, when embedded videos/images are attached?
Pretend I have posted an image or a video that is hosted on my private server to the discord channel.
Then someone else in that discord server clicks to play the video, or view the embedded message (...
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Windows 10 missing service
I'm trying to use a smart card on my computer and I can't get it to read on one of my computers even though using the exact same reader works on the other. Both are running Windows 10 21H1. Plugging ...
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How to set up automatic always-on SSH tunnels on Windows 10 (or 11)?
The accepted answer at the similar question Automatic SSH tunneling from Windows - Super User recommends Bitvise Tunnelier which requires a Windows client and Windows server.
My solution requires a ...
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service which is set as auto is not started when system restarts
Using the below command created a service in cmd
c:\>sc create "DellCare" start= auto displayname= "DellCareService" binpath= "C:\Users\Dev Parzival\Desktop\bat\DellCare\...
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linux service TCP Gateway with service starting
Is there a service (linux) that starts the service on an incoming TCP request (if it does not already exist) and then forwards it to the application? For example, for a docker container that would ...
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How to display output of auto-starting services in Raspberry Pi OS (Debian 10)
I have a Raspberry Pi 3 running Raspberry Pi OS (Debian 10). I have two console applications, one written in .Net Core 5, and one in Python. When you run them, they display status text on the Terminal ...
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Service IKEEXT automatically switched off after Windows 10 reboot
After rebooting Windows 10, the IKEEXT service appears turned off - regardless of it previous state - started, stopped, automatically started or manually started. No problem to disable or enable it or ...
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Cannot "Reset this PC"
I've recently disabled a whole bunch of services, some of which seem to have been important as I can't even launch taskmgr.exe or anything. I went into settings to reset my PC, but I cannot click the ...
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Windows Time Service is Missing
I have Windows 10 Pro installed on my PC. After the last update I have a problem with the time as it changes continuously either after startup or while using the PC. Searching online, I noticed that ...
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Stopping and Starting systemctl Service via Cron job
So I have created a service on my Raspberry Pi 3 using the method described here.
I can stop and start the service from a Terminal session easily enough, and the service starts at boot.
However I ...
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what restarts the wsearch service after I stop it?
As answered in this question, Windows (7, and now 10) does restart the wsearch service after someone deliberately stops it. As that question also explains, one can disable the service to prevent it ...
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Mining rig Batch file for closing unnecessary windows services
Ok so I am building a bat file that can automatically be executed when windows has finished loading to optimize my all my windows' based rigs for GPU mining.
So far my bat file looks like this, is ...
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OpenVPN connection dependency in Windows 10 service
I am running the OpenVPN client service on a Windows 10 machine. It's set to automatic and starts and connects to the VPN server on boot, as expected. On my Linux machine I can see the individual ...
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Chrome Remote Desktop Service doesn't start
So i tried Setting up a headless chrome remote desktop instance on my debian server. I've followed this Tutorial and got to the part, where i should paste the Command provided by google with my ...
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Current directory of process changes when initiated as a service
I've written this service unit to run with systemd:
[Unit]
Description=NodeJS, Express server
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/node /home/sm/test.js
ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
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Some Services Not Showing With Get-Service cmdlet in Powershell
I am trying to compile a list of services on several different servers running Windows Server 2019. To do this I have been to outputting the service names using Get-Service in Powershell but on one of ...
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Automatically starting a service in WSL2 using service command
I have Windows 10 with WSL2, and Ubuntu 20.04 on it. I'm trying to have mailhog automatically start for me in the background, the same way mysql does for me.
I've installed mailhog, and created a /etc/...
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Deactivate vmtoolsd on Ubuntu server
I have a server on a virtual machine which was not setup by myself. As we experience some hiccups from time to time I am trying to cleanup everything that is not needed. top shows that the vmtoolsd ...
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Firewall not blocking http and https service
Here is the output of my firewall-cmd. The services list doesn't contain http and https
What I understand by this is that http and https is not enabled. And so firewall should
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I can't start PostgreSQL Server 13 from Services.msc
I'm trying to set up a PostgreSQL server on my PC, but I keep getting this error message when I try to start it from services.msc:
The postgresql-x64-13 - PostgreSQL Server 13 service on Local ...
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How to resolve WSL2 port conflict with windows services?
I am on Windows 10 20H2 (Build 19042.867). I also using WSL2 with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
Recently, after upgrading to SSD, I have a problem entering WSL2 with the following error:
wsl error 0xfffffff
press ...
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How do I transfer CPP code into Linux-service?
I am Building an agent in C++ that alerts me if anyone has entered a USB on Linux-based computers.
When I'll finish, I need it to run the code on few Linux-based computers as a service.
How do I ...
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How do you repair or re-install the Edge Updater components (scheduled tasks and services)
A user has attempted to remove the "Microsoft Edge Update" application from a Windows 10 PC (1909) (Not Edge but the updater), because the uninstall button was greyed out. The user was an ...
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Not able to start windows update from services.msc
My Windows update on Services.msc always stays in Disable state. I am not able to enable Windows update from Services.msc. I went to its properties and changed startup type as Manual|Automatic -> ...
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Run a windows service if not connected to a particular Wi-Fi network
Currently, I have the OpenVPN windows service set up, and it runs well. I wanted to know if there was a way to make it connect to the VPN whenever I am not connected to my home network (connected to ...
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How to unmask a SystemD service unit on a remote machine?
I have a huuuge problem and need help. While trying to speed up the boot process on my LMDE4 machine by disabling/masking "unnecessary" services, I masked systemd-logind.service and can no ...
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Cannot enable or restart Windows Firewall
I am trying to fix some problems related to Windows Calculator, Clock, etc., but I encounter an error while trying to run the PowerShell command:
Get-AppxPackage -allusers *windowscalculator* | ...
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Jackket service won't start : error 1064
I have Jackcett installed, but it won't start.
Any ideas how to correct this?
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How to restart Windows services including their depending ones using `net stop` or `sc stop`?
For various reasons I need to restart the service NLA (Network Location Awareness) or NlaSvc on the shell using an automated task. Doing so manually using services.msc shows a dialog telling me that ...
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Python in Task Manager or Background Services in Windows?
I just installed Python on Windows system. Just like any software, curious if Python has a background service or program running in Task Manager or Services, when I'm not actually using the program. ...
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How to configure Tor as service on windows?
I just want to have tor proxy server up and running all the time on my windows 10 PC. Tor browser doesn't fit my needs. So I'd like to be able to connect anything I want via socks5 proxy.
It was so ...
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How to view services with no description only?
I have this piece of code
Get-CimInstance Win32_Service | Format-List Name, Description
which shows me all the services and their descriptions, but when I added
| Where-Object {$_.Description -eq &...
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How to correctly enable a service on a CentOs 7 machine using systemctl enable command?
I am not a sysadministrator (I am a software developer) but this time I have to install some agents on some CentOS machines that have to be monitored by Wazuh (a SIEM software) and I have the ...
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WSL2 run xrdp service from Windows
I am trying to start xrdp from Windows with the method described here, but when I run the command wsl sudo service xrdp start, xrdp doesn't start up properly. Running service xrdp status
as my linux ...
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NFS server active (exited)
Why my NFS server is stuck in active(exited)? This is the status:
$ sudo systemctl status nfs-server.service
● nfs-server.service - NFS server and services
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/...
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32 bit service works Windows 7 not in 10. When Allied Telesis driver is installed the service still starts but no logging is done by the service
There is no real code here that has changed. The service starts at bootup, I have tried the delayed start of the service without luck. I went back to a previous version Build 1607 x64 Windows 10. In ...
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Create a service in a Linux Subsystem on Windows 10
I installed correctly WSL2, I'm currently running ubuntu subsystem on windows 10 and I would like to create a service to start a program on startup. The problem is that I cannot use systemctl because ...
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Converting /etc/init.d service to systemd
I am in the process of converting an existing /etc/init.d service to systemd. It seemed to be working but I have encountered a strange issue. The systemd service will happily start with the command &...
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How to delete the folder "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Diagnosis\ETLLogs" and stop Windows from piling up garbage on my SSD?
There are many mentions of this folder on the web, it's clear that it relates to Windows 10 telemetry, and many people want to get rid of this folder (it's 30 GB on my C: drive at the moment, and it ...
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Windows 10 - Which services and Windows features and so on are unnecesary and can be safely disabled? [closed]
I am a Windows power user, tweaker, and tinkerer. I use Windows Explorer, cmd, Control Panel, PowerShell and everything that can be accessed from the Control Panel very often.
Recently I have done a ...
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Microsoft Windows Search Indexer running high on CPU, RAM and Disk - Windows 10
This problem started recently on a Windows 10 laptop I was using (with an Intel i7 7th gen and ADATA 8GB RAM). At first I assumed Outlook had a problem since I initially saw that it was running the ...
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What increases the BIOS Time? Windows 10
I recently reset my Windows 10 PC. The 'last BIOS time' when I checked first was 1.8 seconds (I kept only necessary startup items and services enabled). I used to check it frequently as I was ...
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`systemctl --user disable` for distro-shipped services?
I ran systemctl --user disable tracker-miner-fs.service expecting to see some changes in the filesystem and in the status output, but
XUb ~$ systemctl --user disable tracker-miner-fs.service
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Security Center Disable cannot be started
Security center stopped to work and I cannot change it
by Windows Services because the tabs are grayed out
I'd tried the cmd sfc /scannow also winmgmt /verifyrepository
but everything looks fine.
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The same thing again - Lenovo.Modern.ImController.PluginHost.Device.exe
I have the same problem again and again with "Lenovo.Modern.ImController.PluginHost.Device.exe"
that stopped working (then it was "companionapp.exe", now it's "pluginhost.exe&...
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started seeing this two services suddenly "CDPUserSvc_604aa" and "cbdhsvc_604aa"
I have just installed windows 10 20H2 on my desktop 3 or 4 days ago and below two services "CDPUserSvc_604aa" and "cbdhsvc_604aa" started showing suddenly, please check below ...
