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Steve Bennett
Asked: 2013-02-05 20:21:52 +0800 CST

Simplest way to make a command run after system reboot

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I have a server which exists to run one little Django application. If the server reboots, I want Django to start again:

nohup /opt/myapp/manage.py runserver ...

I'm having trouble finding a simple way to make this run. There are tutorials explaining how to write full-fledged services, runlevels, init.d etc. But there must be a simpler way? A place where I can hack this one extra line onto?

EDIT Mark's answer is perfect, the one-liner works out as:

sudo sed --in-place '/^exit 0/i\cd /opt/appdir\npython manage.py runserver .... &' /etc/rc.local
reboot

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  1. Best Answer

    You could add it to /etc/rc.local before the line that says exit 0. This way it will run at boot every time.

    To add the command using one line:

    sudo sed --in-place '/^exit 0/i\cd /opt/appdir\npython manage.py runserver .... &' /etc/rc.local
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