Create a startup script in ubuntu

Write a script in a text editor. put it in the /etc/init.d/ directory.

Lets say you called it FOO. You then run

sudo update-rc.d FOO defaults

You also have to make the file you created, FOO, executable:

sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/FOO

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19 Responses to “Create a startup script in ubuntu”

  1. hasnain Says:
    May 2, 2007 at 2:57 pm

    Thanks

    you saved my time.

    Regards

    Hasnain

  2. bjorn Says:
    October 9, 2007 at 1:28 pm

    Straight to the point and just what I needed. Thanks!

  3. Njuki Says:
    November 8, 2007 at 9:09 am

    Thank you very much for this! google lead me to you so i had to leave a message

  4. Dom Says:
    December 14, 2007 at 6:57 pm

    You’re a STAR!

    Been struggling with this for a few hours but now have mp3s streaming around my house every time i reboot the server without any messing around…

    Thanks buddy!

  5. Chris Says:
    December 19, 2007 at 3:43 am

    Watch out though. If the script you run doesn’t execute correctly, then the system may not complete booting. That’s what happened to me!

  6. Paul Says:
    January 9, 2008 at 10:07 pm

    I’m a newbie to ubuntu and this was excellent!! Thanks

  7. sameer Says:
    February 7, 2008 at 9:19 am

    thanks,
    will try it on my machine

  8. Craig Says:
    February 18, 2008 at 9:54 am

    Cool, chears.

  9. edgher Says:
    February 26, 2008 at 3:59 am

    simple yet useful script..thanks!

  10. Christian Bartels Says:
    February 26, 2008 at 10:19 am

    Works perfectly. Thanks!

  11. sanchez Says:
    February 28, 2008 at 9:34 am

    simple, powerful ! thanks

  12. Art Says:
    August 21, 2008 at 8:55 pm

    I did it and I don’t like what I did.
    How can I undo the startup script?

  13. Abraham Says:
    October 17, 2008 at 12:30 pm

    Nice ^_^! I won’t start my wireless connection from a terminal again :P . Blessings and thanks for share!

  14. wrybread Says:
    October 28, 2008 at 11:07 pm

    Thanks, just what I needed.

    To the person requesting info on removing the startup script:

    update-rc.d -f FOO remove

    (The -f switch tells it to force the removal. Was necessary for me, not sure if always.)

  15. junderdo Says:
    November 5, 2008 at 10:48 am

    cool. auto mounting starcraft right…..meow!

  16. Andrew Cornford Says:
    November 27, 2008 at 11:21 am

    Thank you so much! That was so very useful!

  17. naveen Says:
    September 19, 2009 at 11:59 pm

    hi,
    will the above command runs the script in background.if not how to do it.becoz my script has infinte while loop

    thanq

  18. Will Says:
    September 23, 2009 at 6:15 am

    Thanks so much! For some reason my fstab wasn’t keeping any of my changes, so I made a startup script using this tutorial to do the mounting. Worked the first time, and I’d spent hours previously messing with fstab.

  19. BruCe Says:
    October 10, 2009 at 11:06 am

    Tks a lot my friend!!!

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