Startup Items on Ubuntu

Daniel Wintschel — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:58:30 +0000

If you’ve ever wanted to get a script to run on boot (or have a daemon like cijoe or ar_sendmail start up, for example), you’ll need to put an appropriate script in the /etc/init.d directory. You’ll also need to ensure it is executable (chmod +x).

After that, though, you need to create appropriate symlinked versions in the run-level directories (those are the directories like /etc/rc0.d, /etc/rc1.d, etc.). The way to go about doing this is (in the most basic and default fashion):

update-rc.d  defaults

E.g.

update-rc.d cijoed defaults

Your script should now run on boot.

Run logrotate verbosely

Daniel Wintschel — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:43:41 +0000

Debugging problems with logrotate (as in, logs not rotating) – this was plenty helpful:

logrotate -d -f /etc/logrotate.conf

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Startup Items on Ubuntu

Run logrotate verbosely