Debian How to run scripts at boot time

Personal notes to be always available for debian installations.

Here’s a very simple script which is divided into two parts, code which always runs, and
code which runs when called with “start” or “stop”.

If you need something like a service to start at boot time, you need this.
Debian stores script needed to usually start, stop and restart in /etc/init.d/
Scripts contained have to be able to manage at least the start and stop parameters.

Following script is an example i use as template for any purpose.

#! /bin/sh
# /etc/init.d/template
#

# at least two cases (start and stop)

case "$1" in
start)
echo "Starting service... "
/usr/local/bin/yourservce -parameters
;;
stop)
echo "Stopping service"
kill -0 $PID 2> /dev/null
;;
*)
echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/template {start|stop}"
exit 1
;;
esac

exit 0

Anyway you can add several “cases” and options, take a look at you scripts in /etc/init.d
directory.

Once you have your start/stop script, you add it let’s say at boot time, with the command

update-rc.d script_name defaults

(remember to chmod +x the file)

You can remove it with following command:

update-rc.d -f script_name remove

obviously thanks to http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/28

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