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Asked: 2016-01-13 09:52:14 +0800 CST

Script in /etc/init.d/ does not run in Ubuntu 15.10

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I have a script which simply echos current time and appends the output to a file. Below is the bash script.

#!/bin/bash
#Filename: /etc/init.d/bootlog
#Bash script to record a timestamp.
echo "Time: `date`" >> /home/foo/Documents/.boot_log
exit

I wanted to run this script every time my computer booted to runlevel 2, so I placed the above script in /etc/init.d/ directory with execute permission for root.

$ ls -l /etc/init.d/bootlog 
-rwx------ 1 root root 161 Jan 12 11:02 /etc/init.d/bootlog
$

Next, I added the required symlink as below.

$ cd /etc/rc2.d/
$ sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/bootlog S06bootlog
$ sudo ls -l /etc/rc2.d/S06bootlog 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jan 12 12:34 /etc/rc2.d/S06bootlog -> /etc/init.d/bootlog
$

After doing the above steps I was expecting the script to run in my next reboot. However the script is NOT running during boot. I can see that because the .boot_log file is not created.

$ cd /home/foo/Documents/
$ sudo ls -l -a .boot_log
ls: cannot access .boot_log: No such file or directory
$

Is there any step I missed ? Or anything I did wrong ?

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1 Answers

  1. Yup, you did something wrong when looking for the file.

    When you ran cd /home/foo/Documents/ and then ls -l -a .boot_log you were attempting to find that file in the /home/foo/Documents/ folder.

    However, your script is storing it in your home directory (/home/foo/), as per >> /home/foo/.boot_log. Try running ls -la .boot_log in /home/foo/ and the file should show up.

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