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Old 01-17-2003   #1 (permalink)
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startup appz HELP???
how is it possible to start a program upon bootup. i have a system util called cpudocker (thats the executable command). I tried adding that command to the /etc/rc.d/rc.local as itself with nothing else there but no luck. If anyone knows an easy way to start an app on boot, please let me know asap.
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that is strange it didn't work in there. Did you get an error at all?
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nah it just didnt do anything at all, here is what the files says so far:

{#blah blah blah

touch /var/lock/subsys/local

cpudocker}

now do i need to put the path to /usr/local/bin ????
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Yeah try putting the full path to the binary in the rc.local file
/path/to/cpudocker and try that. If that path wasnt set in $PATH, your system has no idea where that command is.
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this time i put in:

{#blah blah blah

touch /var/lock/subsys/local

/usr/local/bin/cpudocker}


and still nothing.....and its not the program cause it works from the shell normally.....wtf
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hmm, does it need to be passed any options?
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nope, thats all it needs, its a real simple app, just thought it would be nice to load when linux does without having to do it myself. If anyone else knows a different way that will work, please let me know.
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yeah that is pretty odd that it will not work - is there some chance that you turned off the local script? I have seen that done before, make sure it is S99local in the runlevel director
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I would write a wrapper for it so it saves the output to a file when the system runs it to see what the error is.
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genlee: how do i go about doing that??? also majorwoo, how do i go about checking that (for reference, this is an out of the box RH7.3). Thanx guys, i appreciate
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