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Nagri
Nagri

Reputation: 3156

Script not running on system startup

I am trying to run a script at every system startup. Here is the Script :

#!/bin/sh
echo $(sensible-browser http://localhost/example/user=$USER)

I put copied the script to /etc/init.d/ changed the file permission to 755 and then ran the command sudo update-rc.d scriptname.sh defaults.

tried to run the script via /etc/rc.local too but no luck. Nothing Happens when the system boots up. What else can I do ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 281

Answers (2)

Jens
Jens

Reputation: 72756

You usually don't want to start a browser at system startup--you want to start it after you log in. For that your shell provides startup files (e.g. $HOME/.profile for Bourne heritage shells, or $HOME/.login for csh type shells). As an alternative, X11 programs can be started from $HOME/.xinitrc or $HOME/.xsession.

Maybe we can help if we knew what you were actually trying to achieve.

Upvotes: 1

Jon Lin
Jon Lin

Reputation: 143966

I'm assuming that your default webbrowser requires X to run (e.g. firefox). When the rc.d scripts run, it's not necessarily that your script runs after X is started (or that you have permissions to open a window). If you want to have your browser pop up the page http://localhost/example/user=$USER, you're going to have to look into KDM or GDM or whatever display manager you have and have it run an external script after startup.

Upvotes: 1

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