The init process is the parent of all other processes. This package provides a Python script as a rather minimal implementation. It takes a command as argument and spawns a sub process. Then it waits ...

I'm running a simple docker-compose file with mariadb, that is then going to be used by wordpress. version: '2' volumes: db: driver: local services: db: image: mariadb:10 environment: MYSQL_HOST: db ...

Unless you have been living under a rock, or worse – you don’t care much about how Linux works, you must have heard of systemd, the (relatively) new init system replacing the old and outdated SysV ...

I love discovering new UNIX commands, especially those with a system administration flavor. When I learned Red Hat distributed the chkconfig utility, it brought back fond memories of chkconfig under ...

One of the most crucial pieces of any UNIX-like operating system is the init dæmon process. In Linux, this process is started by the kernel, and it's the first userspace process to spawn and the last ...

Supporting systemd required changes to the WSL architecture. As systemd requires PID 1, the WSL init process started within the Linux distribution becomes a child process of the systemd. Because the ...

The screenful of INIT warnings came about because the mgetty process wouldn’t start. As a result, init was continually trying to respawn the process. Determining why the mgetty process might be ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. The quotation stated above is one hundred percent apt. Android, by the looks of it, seems to be a simplistic ...

I bet that you are thinking of the latest mods and tweaks for your Android phone, but something might simply stop you. Well, the device keeps asking you if you have Init.d support. As you might know ...