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RocketNuts
RocketNuts

Reputation: 11120

Find out how or where a program (script) is automatically starting at ubuntu 14 boot?

Running Ubuntu 14.04, and I have a script that is being run automatically when I boot the machine. For the life of me, I can't remember how or where I did this.

I already checked:

It's a script of my own, so it's not some kind of malicious virus or malware or anything. I just can't remember how I did this, and would like to know.

It has a distinct name, e.g. like ~/MyScriptXYZ.sh so I could search for that, IF I know how or where..?? (I'm a novice linux user)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3106

Answers (2)

VIRNARRA
VIRNARRA

Reputation: 11

So I stumbled across this question and I managed to solve it for myself: I was using Ubuntu (chroot) through the Linux Deploy Android app and I also couldn't find it. So to make the answer complete: Use pstree to locate and trace what is currently running and see where it's originating from.

Following Basile Starynkevitch's advice I managed to solve it by going to: /home/[user]/.config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart and find it the code I added a while ago.

Upvotes: 1

the1dv
the1dv

Reputation: 931

A few other places you can look:

crontab -e as your own user and as root (local user crontab)

/etc/profile.d/ or /etc/profile

~/.profile

~/.bashrc

The last ditch attempt you can do is to cd / && grep -R "MyScriptXYZ" as root - this will take a while but will search all files on your computer for that reference :)

Upvotes: 2

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