Starting applications at boot

[Dick Dowdell]

Use 'nohup' (not hang up) before the command to allow your process to run
after its terminal is closed.  The process' output will be written to
nohup.out in the directory where it's being run.

On 6/7/07, Jan Sneep <jan at azureservices.ca> wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> > [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com]On Behalf Of sktsee
> > Sent: June 5, 2007 5:06 PM
> > To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Subject: Re: Starting applications at boot
>
> [snip]
>
> > Man update-rc.d. You can use this program to create the
> > necessary links in
> > rcX.d to the appropriate script in /etc/init.d/ to determine when a
> > service should be started and stopped. You can use either
> > update-rc.d's
> > defaults, or you can specify the runlevel, and/or the
> > start-stop order of
> > your service's initscript.
>
> I read the man page (took me a while to figure out that one uses the
> enter-key to scroll down the pages and the q-key to quit ... just shows
> you
> how much I have to learn ...) and then based on what it said decided to
> use
> one of the examples and so typed;
>
> update-rc.d open-xchange-groupware start 30 2 3 4 5 . stop 70 0 1 6 .
>
> Which worked beautifully, well at least there are
> S30open-xchange-groupware
> files in the /etc/rc2.d through to the /etc/rc5.d folders and
> K70open-xchange-groupware files in the /etc/rc0.d, rc1.d, and rc6.dfolders.
>
> However, when I re-booted, first just a restart and then when that didn't
> appear to work a cold-boot shutdown and start. I open a terminal window
> and
> check the status and it shows "not running" and yet I can start & stop it
> manually with out any problem. Now I did get an interesting response when
> I
> forgot to run the script as SU, which got me to thinking there must be a
> log
> file of some kind that is created during start-up that I can look at to
> see
> if the system actually attempts to start the service and any errors that
> are
> produced?
>
>
> jan at ubuntu:~$ /etc/init.d/open-xchange-groupware status
> /etc/init.d/open-xchange-groupware: line 34: ulimit: open files: cannot
> modify limit: Operation not permitted
> jan at ubuntu:~$ sudo su
> Password:
> root at ubuntu:/home/jan# /etc/init.d/open-xchange-groupware status
> Checking for Open-Xchange Groupware: not running
> root at ubuntu:/home/jan# /etc/init.d/open-xchange-groupware start
> Starting Open-Xchange Groupware: open-xchange-groupware.
> root at ubuntu:/home/jan#
>
> I also notice that if I start the service in a terminal window and then I
> close that window and open another the service has stopped and I need to
> start it again. Which got me thinking that as the script is from the
> open-xchange folks that perhaps it has some un-Ubuntu "stuff" in it that
> might be causing it to not start properly? I have attached a copy in case
> anyone can spot something that is a no-no.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jan
>
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Regards,
Dick Dowdell
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