Top "Service" questions

A Service is a long-running executable that performs specific functions and which is designed not to require user intervention.

How to check if a particular service is running on Ubuntu

I do not know the service's name, but would like to stop the service by checking its status. For example, …

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Start service in Android

I want to call a service when a certain activity starts. So, here's the Service class: public class UpdaterServiceManager extends …

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Android: How can I get the current foreground activity (from a service)?

Is there a native android way to get a reference to the currently running Activity from a service? I have …

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How to check if Location Services are enabled?

I'm developing an app on Android OS. I don't know how to check if Location Services are enabled or not. …

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Should a RESTful 'PUT' operation return something

I was wondering what people's opinions are of a RESTful PUT operation that returns nothing (null) in the response body.

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conversion of a varchar data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range value

I have the following piece of inline SQL that I run from a C# windows service: UPDATE table_name SET …

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AngularJS : Initialize service with asynchronous data

I have an AngularJS service that I want to initialize with some asynchronous data. Something like this: myModule.service('MyService', …

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Run a Java Application as a Service on Linux

I have written a Java server application that runs on a standard virtual hosted Linux solution. The application runs all …

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How to run a Python script in the background even after I logout SSH?

I have Python script bgservice.py and I want it to run all the time, because it is part of …

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