On 12/20/2010 10:24 PM, DarkIce wrote: > On Monday December 20, 2010 11:23:26 Roland Whitehead wrote: >> I have encoders running Ubuntu 10.10 netbook edition and Darkice. All works >> fine except I would like to have Darkice start on boot. I have tried >> various init.d scripts. These run (start, stop, restart, status) but won't >> run on boot regardless of if I run an update-rc script or put something >> into rc.local. There is nothing in the logs to indicate a failure. In fact >> I have added my own logging which adds an entry every time the script is >> called and the start script is running on boot but Darkice remains >> obstinately dark... >> >> Does anyone have a reliable method of starting Darkice on boot? > > > create a BASH script or just call darkice direct that you call via cron job > for root > > @REBOOT /path/to/darkice -v 10 -c /usr/darkice/darkice.cfg > > > Has to be root for it to run each boot up an alternative is to append basically the same line to /etc/rc.local : /path/to/darkice -v 10 -c /usr/darkice/darkice.cfg & this is executed at the end of startup, when all other services have already been started