program startup at boot

Mearth · 02-21-2007, 04:24 PM

How does one go about setting up an app to startup at bootup on a Mepis installation? I have tried: 'update-rc.d ez-ipupdate defaults' but get an error to the effect that the program is already setup. However I do not see the app running in ps. I did configure it to run as a daemon.

Zyglow · 02-22-2007, 11:12 AM

If you just need the program to run you could add it to rc.local

Mearth · 02-22-2007, 01:06 PM

I thought that this should/could not be done on a Debian system.

billymayday · 02-22-2007, 01:51 PM

Does the cron in Mepis allow for

@reboot command

Mearth · 02-22-2007, 02:28 PM

I looked up some info on the net and it seems this will work. I am going to give it a shot tonight. I had no idea how to use cron. I just remember from back in my programing days that it allows one to automate commands. Thanks for your help. I will post my commands and results tonight.

Mearth · 02-22-2007, 06:22 PM

I decided to check the syslog and found this when the app tried to start. Can anybody tell me what might be the problem?

Feb 20 03:54:42 localhost ez-ipupdate[3443]: could not create pid file /var/run/ez-ipupdate/default.pid (Bad file descriptor), exiting

Mearth · 02-25-2007, 07:25 PM

I gave up on ez-ipupdate since it seems to be lacking in current support or documentation. I installed ddclient instead, which comes with a setup wizard. Now my dynamic dns seems to be working. Except I cannot even ping my public ip or domain name. But it did update the dns server at least.