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Starting bash script on boot

pazu
Hi all,

Hopefully its an easy fix, I'm trying to start a bash script at startup that will run forever (while system is online).

I have a script, called statupdate

I have located it in /etc/init.d/

I have given it execute permissions

I have then put in a link to it under /etc/init.d/RC3.d/S99statupdate

This worked, but the system boot sequence never finished because the script started kept looping, preventing the system boot sequence to continue.

I then created another script called startupdate

that script simply started the main statupdate script. I tried with the following:

./statupdate &

OR

nohup ./statupdate & 

I swapped out the S99statupdate with S99startupdate (and gave it execute permissions)

The exact same issue occured.

Can anyone point out what I'm doing wrong?

Cheers,
Pazu


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  • 0 in reply to BarryG
    Thanks TechEd and Barry, I had looked at crontab and @reboot, was hoping to find something that survives a head reset, but I think that is my best option at the moment.

    William - trying to start a script that has a forever loop in it at run time - thats all. I'm aware that this isn't supported, it is a home install.
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