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Neil Middleton
Asked: 2009-10-09 05:53:27 +0800 CST

Setting a script to run at boot on Ubuntu

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I need to kick off some processes on server boot, but I need them to run as a specific user. At the moment I only have a load startup.sh's lying around.

Server is Ubuntu 8.04

ubuntu-8.04

2 Answers

  1. As an alternative option, you can put it in the specific user's crontab, like this:

    @reboot command-to-run

    Edit: Before I forget, as root, you can edit a specific user's crontab with

    crontab -u username -e

    More documentation at Debian Administration.

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  2. The short answer is to put a 

    su username -c "/path/to/your/script.sh"

    in the ubuntu equivalent of rc.local.

    See this RcLocalHowto to prepare your system to have its local init script

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