startup – I throw out a softball

[Member JoeR]

This should be an easy one. I want to run the following commands every time the computer boots so i don’t have to ssh in and type them in. How can I easily do it?

here are the commands:
tightvncserver
this allows me to use tightvnc to operate my antiX box remotely

boincmgr
this allows me to see what boinc is doing

if you can even suggest a message thread to follow, which would be a good guide.

Thank you

[Anonymous]

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You could try putting them in your ~.bashrc if the machine boots to user login.
otherwise they would have to be a sctript loaded by rc.d runlevel every
time the machine starts.

[Anonymous]

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btw not a fan of baseball/softball

[Forum Admin Dave]

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I think you can add those commands to /etc/rc.local

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[Member JoeR]

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Thank you Dave and linuxdaddy for your help,

I can certainly edit the /etc/rc.local file to include the command, question is what would the command look like?

ie
tightvncserver &
or
/usr/bin/tightvncserver &
or
./usr/bin/tightvncserver &
or other

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

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I’d usually go with what terminal tells me

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$ which antixcc.sh
/usr/local/bin/antixcc.sh
harry@biker:~
$ which synaptic
/usr/sbin/synaptic
harry@biker:~

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[Anonymous]

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I usually type the full path in so I would use the “/usr/bin/tightvncserver &” with no
leading dot and make sure it goes before the “exit 0” in rc.local.
the exit 0 has to be at the end of the file.

[Member JoeR]

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Still no joy – any ideas why?

#!/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.
#

/home/joe/Scripts/joe_startup.sh
/usr/bin/tightvncserver &
/usr/bin/boincmgr &
exit 0

[Moderator caprea]

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Possibly they are starting to early

You can influence this with the sleep command

which sleep

Could maybe look like this
(/bin/sleep 60s && /usr/bin/tightvncserver &)

That are 60 seconds.I’m not sure about the brackets, so this is without warranty.

[Anonymous]

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Is the rc.local marked executable “chmod 755 /etc/rc.local” and all
examples I see online don’t have the & at the end of the lines.

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