Comments on: Adding a startup script to be run at bootup

By: JL

JL — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:29:45 +0000

Running Ubuntu Karmic. I’m trying to mount a USB key on boot, and keep it mounted during the login process. The key has my ecryptfs passphrase. I have no problems mounting it on boot, but gnome-volume-manager seems to want to unmount it and then remount it so that I get an icon on the desktop. Problem is, with the key unmounted, I can’t properly mount the encrypted home directory. Any way around this? I’m been messing with halevt, without success so far. Thanks.

By: d3\/!150m4+!c

d3\/!150m4+!c — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:25:31 +0000

If you’re using the recent version of ubuntu then adding a command line to startup is extremely easy. Open your startup applications via system –> preferences. From there you “click” add then put your command in the “command line”. There shouldn’t be a need to select a program.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:18:12 +0000

I’m having this odd issue.. I’m trying to get tomcat 5.5.26 to autostart on an Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron VM built using VMWare Studio 1.0.

For whatever reason.. Tomcat will only stay started if the start script symbolic link resides in /etc/rcS.d/ .. If I place the start-up script into /etc/rc2.d/ Tomcat will start, but it shuts down once I get to the VAMI (Virtual Appliance Machine Interface) console. The Tomcat logs indicate it received a shutdown command which it never should have.

By: Tithen

Tithen — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:13:12 +0000

Hey I’m new too linux and i have almost no knowledge of code.
I was wondering i could make a script to download and execute this: http://ubuntu.online02.com/node/14

at start up on my live usb? or is there another way of doing it?
I have Ubuntu 9.04 and I’m using at school

By: Godfrey

Godfrey — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:22:41 +0000

my dell laptop can not boot up, hangs with a blank screen and a cosior could move around.
Help
Godfrey

By: Konteyner

Konteyner — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:40:41 +0000

There has been a change in the stuff I was doing, so cudnt get back. thank you

By: James Little

James Little — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:58:56 +0000

Thanks for the post. I wanted my script to run last (i.e. 99th) to be sure that networking was up (and the script needed both start and stop operations), so I ran the following:
update-rc.d -f my_script_name defaults 99

Works nicely on Ubuntu 8.04.

By: sree

sree — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:30:00 +0000

will the same syntax apply for c++ scripts cause when i tried to add it to startup nothing happened.(it dint run)

By: Jonathon Hill » Auto-start a shell script on Ubuntu Server

Jonathon Hill » Auto-start a shell script on Ubuntu Server — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:13:25 +0000

[...] Adding a startup script to be run at bootup [...]

By: links for 2009-03-04 « My place

links for 2009-03-04 « My place — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:03:49 +0000

[...] Adding a startup script to be run at bootup « Ubuntu Blog chmod +X FOO; update-rc.d FOO defaults (tags: ubuntu bash shell startup script add) [...]