Re: Easiest way to automatically run a script after reboot

[Stuart Henderson]

On 2018-11-10, Steve Williams  wrote:
> It does a few other housekeeping things like linking the mysql.sock 
> (MariaDB) from /var/www into the corresponding non-chroot area so that 
> tools work outside of httpd.

No symlink is needed for this, see "chrooted daemons and MariaDB socket"
in the mariadb-server pkg-readme for an alternative.

Re: Easiest way to automatically run a script after reboot

[Steve Williams]

Hi,

Awesome!  Thanks for the pointer to cron!  I never knew the @reboot 
existed :)


Cheers,
Steve W.

On 10/11/2018 3:22 PM, Christian Weisgerber wrote:

On 2018-11-10, Steve Williams  wrote:


I have a script that I would like run after all the network is
configured, daemons started, etc.

I looked at rc.local, but am not sure what is actually started after the
rc.local runs.

Let's take a look at /etc/rc:

...
   [[ -f /etc/rc.local ]] && sh /etc/rc.local

   # Disable carp interlock.
   ifconfig -g carp -carpdemote 128

   mixerctl_conf

   echo -n 'starting local daemons:'
   start_daemon apmd sensorsd hotplugd watchdogd cron wsmoused xenodm
   echo '.'
...

Also, as you can see, cron(8) is started late, and you can put a
@reboot entry into crontab(5).

Re: Easiest way to automatically run a script after reboot

[Christian Weisgerber]

On 2018-11-10, Steve Williams  wrote:

> I have a script that I would like run after all the network is 
> configured, daemons started, etc.
>
> I looked at rc.local, but am not sure what is actually started after the 
> rc.local runs.

Let's take a look at /etc/rc:

...
  [[ -f /etc/rc.local ]] && sh /etc/rc.local

  # Disable carp interlock.
  ifconfig -g carp -carpdemote 128

  mixerctl_conf

  echo -n 'starting local daemons:'
  start_daemon apmd sensorsd hotplugd watchdogd cron wsmoused xenodm
  echo '.'
...

Also, as you can see, cron(8) is started late, and you can put a
@reboot entry into crontab(5).

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber  na...@mips.inka.de

Easiest way to automatically run a script after reboot

[Steve Williams]

Hi,

I have a script that I would like run after all the network is 
configured, daemons started, etc.


For example, it does a file system check on a large externally attached 
drive that isn't always there.  It is not auto mounted.  If the system 
goes down unexpectedly, I don't want the boot to be held up while the 
file system check is done.


It does a few other housekeeping things like linking the mysql.sock 
(MariaDB) from /var/www into the corresponding non-chroot area so that 
tools work outside of httpd.

    eg: ln /var/www/var/run/mysql/mysql.sock /var/run/mysql/mysql.sock

What would be the best place to invoke this?

I looked at rc.local, but am not sure what is actually started after the 
rc.local runs.


Are there any other easy hooks to run my script?

From man(8) rc

 rc.local is executed towards the end of rc (it is not the very last as
 there are a few services that must be started at the very end).
 Normally, rc.local contains commands and daemons that are not part 
of the

 stock installation.

Thanks,
Steve Williams