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Finding how a Linux system was booted

I have a remote server, running Linux 5.19.0-41-generic x86_64, I am trying to find out how it was booted. Apparently, it does not use systemd : PID 1 process is bash. ps -p 1 -o comm= bash Apparently, there is no GRUB, at least there is none in…
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How can I make Linux reboot instead of remounting the filesystem as read-only?

Linux systems sometimes remount the root file system as read-only, e.g. if there's an I/O error. I have a machine that becomes useless when this happens, and I end up rebooting it manually. Is there a way to make Linux just automatically reboot when…
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Automatic Reboot at specific time if Automatic Upgrade requires Reboot

I have setup automatic updates and it updates automatically. However, there are updates that require a restart and I know Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot "true"; will set it to reboot. But it reboots as soon as it updates. That could be at any…
Abdulsattar Mohammed
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Restart all services in Linux without rebooting kernel?

I have remote machine that has encrypted drives thus each full reboot requires physical access to machine. Machine just experienced issues with lack of disk space so part of running services crashed / entered weird malfunction states. I'd like to…
Lapsio
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Windows Server 2016 automatically restart

We've had a 2016 reboot on critical servers after updates! Even worse, during operating hours! We have a group policy to prevent an automatic restart of the servers if a new update(s) is available: Configure automatic updating: 3 - Auto download…
Pejvak Javaheripour
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NFS shares dissappear after reboot of Windows server

I have a server running Windows Server 2016 with the File Server Role (NFS Server) enabled. On this server an iSCSI disk is mounted as disk S:. One folder on this disk (S:\EXCHANGE) is an NFS Share. This NFS share does not persist after a reboot. I…
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Windows Server 2012 R2 DC's take almost exactly an hour to reboot after Windows Updates

For several months now, every time any of our 3 Windows Server 2012 R2 domain controllers reboot, they're unreachable for an hour according to our network monitoring software (PRTG). I can see from the event logs that the Security Accounts Manager…
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How can I reboot server when HTTP stop responding on AWS EC2

I have a server on Amazon EC2 and I would like to reboot it whenever it stops responding for HTTP requests. It is a single micro instance. I was thinking about using AWS Lambda but I could not find any scripts (preferably in Python). I also tried to…
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When is system scheduled for reboot?

Where can I find information about if there is an reboot scheduled and in that case: when, why and by who? I got this in my terminal: Broadcast message from root@my-server (Tue 2017-11-07 09:00:00 CET): The system is going down for reboot at Wed…
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Perfmon counters are not restarted after reboot

The question has a long history, and I went through all previous questions (1, 2) but neither of them answers the question why the standard way doesn't work? If I don't want to use logman how can I schedule automatic restart of counters/data…
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All methods of making iptables persist are not working

I set rules in iptables a few months back and used iptables-persistent to make the rules persist through reboot. I just updated my rules and am trying to make them persist but nothing is working they keep resetting to the earlier version. I have…
Aaron Martin
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Linux umount order at reboot/shutdown

I have a (I think) very particular situation on my embedded Linux which I cannot work out properly... Due to particular (custom) checks to be performed on filesystems at startup before mounting them, I use an initial ramdisk to check and mount all…
Morix Dev
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Preserve order of closing services while shutting down the Linux

I defined a Linux systemd service which has few dependencies in unit file using After= and Requires=. My service depends also on SAN filesystems controlled by Veritas. When stopping my service upon shutdown I noticed my service is stopped after VCS…
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Host key changing during reboot

I have four Azure VM machines running Ubuntu 20.04.3 that I regularly shut down. Yesterday I shut them down, and early today I restarted them. Usually this presents no problems. Today, one of the machines started giving me the dreaded WARNING:…
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Automatic reboot of server for no reason

My server has restarted and I can't find a reason for this.. Installed on kvm virtualizor server. I checked the logs but didn't see the reason for the restart. last +x reboot [root@localhost ~]# last +x reboot reboot system boot 3.10.0-957.27.2.…
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