Cant run command at bootup

Maverick1182 · 07-05-2006, 05:00 PM

Hi, i'm trying to run the lircd deamon at bootup and from the suggestions on the forums i've added it to /etc/rc.d/rc.local file as below , but it doesnt seem to load. any clues? i normally have to login as root to run the command could this be a problem? they run when i type them in a console manually.

#!/bin/sh
#
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.

touch /var/lock/subsys/local
modprobe lirc_dev
modprobe lirc_gpio
lircd --device /dev/lirc0

patrokov · 07-05-2006, 11:40 PM

What comes to mind is that you should try using the absolute path to the commands because your environment paths may not be setup when rc.local runs.

Code:

/bin/touch /var/lock/subsys/local
/sbin/modprobe lirc_dev
/sbin/modprobe lirc_gpio
/$path/lircd --device /dev/lirc0

Maverick1182 · 07-08-2006, 03:42 AM

Tried the solution, but the daemon still doesnt load

spirit receiver · 07-08-2006, 04:20 AM

Try and replace rc.local with the following file temporarily:

Code:

#! /bin/bash -x
exec > >(mail -s "from rc.local" root) 2>&1
touch /var/lock/subsys/local
modprobe lirc_dev
modprobe lirc_gpio
lircd --device /dev/lirc0

It should send an email to root that will tell you what's going on. I believe that sending an email should not be a problem in rc.local, but if I'm wrong, you can replace the exec line with the following:

Code:

exec >FILENAME 2>&1

Then the output will go to the specified file.