Launch program at startup - how to ?

[jrleighton]

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I want to launch x11vnc at startup. It involves init.d and the insertion of a new file in that directory. But how do I know what the file should look like - it all looks v complicated to me unfortunately. The terminal command line is a simple "x11vnc" - would just putting that in a file in this folder also do the trick ?

Thanks for any help out there.

[nature]

start up scripts can be placed in /etc/rc.local (or maybe ) /etc/init.d/rc.local file
so that they are executed at boot
regards

[jrleighton]

Thanks for the help, but I'm still not there.

My /etc/init.d/rc.local file appears to say that it executes whatever is in /etc/rc.local on startup.

I've amended my rc.local file to include the command I want, but on startup of the machine, the command doesn't execute.

Any ideas where I am going wrong ?

Please see my /etc/rc.local file below. Thanks for the help.

#!/bin/sh -e
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# value on error.
#
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
#
# By default this script does nothing.

x11vnc

exit 0

[devils casper]

hi jrleighton !!!

did you changed execution bits of /etc/rc.local

$ chmod u+x /etc/rc.local





casper

[jrleighton]

I didnt...no. What is it that I need to do please ?

(if you could spell it out, like I am an idiot, that would be great!)

I will understand all this soon....I have patience!
Thanks

[devils casper]

well !! you are not idiot... you are just a newbie... as i was .. and i am....

on terminal give this command
$ chmod u+x /etc/rc.local
it will set execution permission. visit linuxcommand.org too.





casper

[janakavishwajith]

If you need to add for all people, you can edit the ~/.bashrc file.
I m a newbie also, am I correct "Devils casper"