I've searched everywhere and done my homework before posting, but still can't get one thing to work. I have an Ubunutu 14.04 server (headless) and am trying to figure out what I'd think would be a simple task, but cannot get it to work and it's driving me insane. Below are the details...
What I'm Trying to Do
At boot, I want 3 applications to automatically start. The 3 strings are already in a bash script located in /etc/init.d which when run manually executes properly. No matter what I've tried, I cannot get it to run at boot, though. My session lists that I'm at runlevel 2.
Note: The server is remote and I access via SSH. Due to not being local, I obviously cannot immediately see the echo during initial boot stages. I also do not use GRUB with this server.
What I've Tried
None have worked :(
- Editing rc.local (using nano) in /etc and /etc/init.d and adding the commands or script
- Verified that rc.local was enabled for my runlevel (plus enabled it for all runlevels to test)
- Creating symlinks to the script which had "S99" appended to the beginning of the name in /etc/init.d in /etc/rc1.d, /etc/rc2.d... all the way to rc6.d as described here
- Adding to Startup in Unity - Yes, it's headless, but one of the things I'm trying to start is for the VNC Server. As predicted, apps configured here require Unity to auto launch which it doesn't
- A few other things I can't remember right now
Any suggestions would be very much appreciated - Thanks!
