Comments on: Auto-start a shell script on Ubuntu Server

By: Jonathon

Jonathon — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 06:21:35 +0000

Unfortunately I’m not familiar enough with Ubuntu (Debian) Linux internals to help you on that one, try Google

By: stephen

stephen — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 03:06:22 +0000

I did that on Ubuntu 10.04 and it does not run the script. is there a log somewhere to show swhat is the problem? if I start it manually by executing sudo /etc/init.d/myscript.sh
it runs fine.
also there is a file /etc/rc.local by default and I changed the execution bits on that and still it does nothing.
thanks for looking at this.

By: Jonathon

Jonathon — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:04:07 +0000

Prashant, what Linux distribution are you running?

By: Prashant

Prashant — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:27:15 +0000

when i fire command sudo update-rc.d myscript.sh defaults
then display the below error

update-rc.d: warning: /etc/init.d/test.sh missing LSB information
update-rc.d: see
System start/stop links for /etc/init.d/test.sh already exist.

By: Jonathon

Jonathon — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:43:20 +0000

In that case, I’ll need to know more about your setup. Email me at jhill9693 at gmail dot com if you would like to continue the conversation.

By: DJ

DJ — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 02:28:56 +0000

No, the computer belongs to me

By: Jonathon

Jonathon — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:32:30 +0000

Are you running on a shared hosting service? Many of them will kill long-running scripts after a period of time.

By: DJ

DJ — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:56:20 +0000

Hi,

I want to use myscript.sh to start an application. after reboot, I found my application was indeed started (it has some log files), but it was somehow killed by the system. Do you know why?

By: Jonathon

Jonathon — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:11:31 +0000

You can use rcconf – see http://stringofthoughts.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/adding-removing-shell-scripts-ubuntu-810/

By: J

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:46:13 +0000

Hello, thanks for this How-To!

But how can I remove the autostart script if I doesn’t need it anymore?