How to run script at startup

Hi everyone,

I would like to run a script at startup. I put the script in the /etc/init.d folder, but it does not get called. I think I have to register it somehow (modprobe maybe?) but I can't remember how to do that. Any suggestions?

Here's the script (it's just to turn off the very very very annoying ambient light sensor of my laptop)

I have a very simple (for now) startup script which I want to run whenever the machine boots.

Under RHEL6, I can put the script into /etc/init.d/paxjob and then create a link from the runlevel directory:

cd /etc/rc5.d ln -s ../init.d/paxjob S99paxjob

The, on reboot, my script runs fine.

However, trying to do the same under SLES11 is not working.

I have a script that runs on startup, but it wont launch a application in chroot.

#!/bin/sh /usr/sbin/chroot /root/chrootdir/ /bin/sh -c "lighttpd -f /etc/lighttpd.conf -m /lib" echo "script activated" >> /log/www.log

the log file is written/appended on startup, but the lighttpd server is not starting. Running the script when the box is running works fine and launches lighttpd.

Hi. I need to launch one script during startup, but don't know what is the exact sequence to get this done like where to copy(rc*.d or /etc/init.d or /etc/init) my script, if needed how to give some special execution permissions etc. I tried copying one small script file with only an echo in /etc/rcS.d and got that print in /var/log/boot.log file.

Per various tutorials I've done the following:

created a file called ftpserver.py in /home/root/

created a file in /etc/init.d/ called ftpserver that looks like this"

#!/bin/sh python /home/root/ftpserver.py

Upon creation, I ran the following (to make it executable, apparently)

root@beaglebone1:/etc/init.d# chmod +x ftpserver

But it doesn't appear to be running on startup.

Hi all, im pretty new to unit/redhat 6.2 I am trying to load a script upon startup of my redhat 6.2 (instance in ec2 AWS if someone cares)

I want everytime when instance starts (after stop/reboot) a script i build to launch.

I have just installed No-IP on a brand new Ubuntu 12.04 install. The program starts fine when I start it from the CLI, but if I try to make this startup script work it won't start.

I got this script from their install instructions:

#! /bin/sh # .

I am trying to get a simple script to run automatically at startup. A friend told me to do this but it did not work.

Hello,

I'm having a problem getting a program to run from /etc/init.d/rc.local. I can run my script manually once the system has booted.