Noob question, get a script running at boot

[huibert]

(19th Jun, 2014 11:15 PM)josch Wrote:  

(19th Jun, 2014 07:42 AM)huibert Wrote:  I'm sorry, i didn't get a notification for that response, so i haven't tries it yet. It wasn't my intention to ignore anyone. [...]

No problem! I just thought that you had already success. In this case I would have expected a short reply.
But of course, I didn't want to be harsh or offended only because you didn't answered fast enough.

(19th Jun, 2014 07:42 AM)huibert Wrote:  can anyone advise me what might be the problem with these 2 automatic services not working?

Ok, so let's face the /etc/rc.local method. - What exactly did you put in and where?

There are three important things you have to consider:

1. your command must be put before the line exit(0)
2. to keep the command running in the background you have to end the command with a &
3. commands in /etc/rc.local are executed as root
   

Example:
If I would want to run a script after boot as user xbian and keep the script running, I would add a line like:

Code:

su xbian -c "/path/script &"

right before the exit(0) line in /etc/rc.local.

If you want to run the script as root, the part in the quotes (/path/script &) is all you need!

There we go, insufficient understanding of the rc.local . added the & and correctly started the program as root. Thank you for all your help.