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cHam
cHam

Reputation: 2664

how to make a jar file auto run after reboot or start of a system

I have a jar file that tracks system info and logs it every 24 hours. How can I make it so that if the system restarts or starts the jar file is started as well? I am running a linux server with CentOS 6.4.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5934

Answers (3)

Basile Starynkevitch
Basile Starynkevitch

Reputation: 1

In addition of other (valid) answers, you could consider adding a crontab entry with @reboot.

The @reboot syntax to crontab is a "Vixie" extension, but that syntax is common on Linux.

This supposes that your Linux system has cron which is very likely. In addition, it does not require superuser privilege. You have to run the crontab(1) command to set it up.

You may still want to have your java program a regular linux "service". See also this and that answers.

Upvotes: 2

mael
mael

Reputation: 2254

Take a look at the following link: https://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Installation_Guide-en-US/s1-boot-init-shutdown-run-boot.html Basically, you should just run your jar from the /etc/rc.d/rc.local script

Upvotes: 2

Mubin
Mubin

Reputation: 4239

The simplest way is to add

java -jar YourJarFile.jar

in

/etc/rc.d/rc.local

Note: Commands in the above file are run at startup (as root). Note that if you do this, your command will NOT respond to the usual service start/ stop commands.

Upvotes: 4

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