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Run a shell script on system startup? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) by helloworld@lemmy.ml to c/linuxquestions@lemmy.zip

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I think there are multiple things one could do to achieve this, but am uncertain which way to go:

if you use systemd create a systemd service I guess? How to create systemd service that runs a (python) script on startup?
some files similar to .bashrc always run on system startup/boot?; use this if you are less fancy / have no systemd

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

What do you want to accomplish? Systemd can do lots of things like monitoring, sandboxing and dependency management along with just running commands.

If you are on a Busybox init based system like OpenWRT you can also just write a init script.

[–] helloworld@lemmy.ml 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

My first simple use case: I want to start a http (busybox httpd) server on localhost inside a certain directory whenever I turn the PC on.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 18 hours ago

Don't use a script for this

I would setup Lighttpd since it is a proper server while being pretty lightweight. It should come with the needed systemd unit so that you can just do sudo systemctl start lighttpd

Avoid writing scripts like the plague. Config files are much better and will scale better.