Timeline for Other than crontab, what other ways can one add programs to run at boot time?
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| Apr 18, 2017 at 22:08 | comment | added | FreeSoftwareServers | I personally have had @reboot not work for me correctly, it doesn't necessarily run at the end up startup sequence and therefore might not work as expected | |
| Apr 18, 2017 at 6:35 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackUnix/status/854221753861763072 | ||
| Apr 17, 2017 at 16:04 | comment | added | 0xSheepdog | Wow, TIL... As the first comment on the AskUbuntu question suggests, the \@reboot is not well known. I had no idea it existed! =) So, presuming it is a fully supported feature, that might just be a good way to accomplish the task. Keep in mind that I was unaware of it -- as many others seem to be as well. If you want to do something in an "off the beaten path" manner, this is great. If you want a well known and established method (for ease of use by others), maybe consider init.d scripts or systemd services; both are well documented and known. YMMV. Thanks for teaching me something new! | |
| Apr 17, 2017 at 15:56 | comment | added | Devilius | @0xSheepdog Good to know, but could you add why that is the case? Throughout searching on how to run scripts on reboot, I found a number of people recommending it: askubuntu.com/a/816/596765 | |
| Apr 17, 2017 at 15:42 | comment | added | 0xSheepdog | Don't mean to be nit-picky, but crontab really isn't the place to do anything related to system startup activities. I get that you told us you checked there (which is good troubleshooting!), but with crontab in the title I wanted to be clear in case other readers come across this post. | |
| Apr 17, 2017 at 13:54 | vote | accept | Devilius | ||
| Apr 17, 2017 at 13:54 | comment | added | Devilius | @MatthewGauthier Aha! Yes, yes I had, thank you very much! | |
| Apr 17, 2017 at 13:43 | comment | added | Matthew Gauthier | Did you accidently save it to your session? Session and Startup->Session | |
| Apr 17, 2017 at 13:19 | answer | added | Andrei Tumbar | timeline score: 3 | |
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| Apr 17, 2017 at 13:10 | history | asked | Devilius | CC BY-SA 3.0 |