Auto start of snap application on boot up

[Daniel Manrique]

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Jenny Murphy <jenny.murphy at episensor.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>  I would like my snap application to start automatically when the system
> boots. On a non snappy platform I would add the start line to /etc/rc.local,
> but I see that this is not possible on Ubuntu 15.04 with Snappy.
> So can someone please advise the alternative?
> Thanks.

Hello,

I start a daemon like this:

apps:
    my-nice-daemon:
        command: bin/my-nice-daemon-server
        daemon: simple
        plugs: [network-bind]


my-nice-daemon-server is a simple shell wrapper that sets things up
and starts the daemon.

This will start when the system boots (or when the snap is installed,
so snap install your-snap will get the service running with no extra
work).

Another example is here:

https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/blob/master/demos/webcam-webui/snapcraft.yaml

Cheers!

- Daniel
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