How to autostart a task at system start up i.e. myprogram.bin with admin rights?
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3What is a 'user task...with admin rights'? Does that mean a root task? Or something else? Do you want it to run before login? Or after? Does your program need access to a display, keyboard, network, filesystem, or anything else? Does it produce output, and where should output go to? – user535733 Nov 02 '17 at 03:24
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2What version of Ubuntu is this? – George Udosen Nov 02 '17 at 05:50
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Jupp a root task! – Martin.Martinsson Nov 02 '17 at 17:00
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Version 16 Plus – Martin.Martinsson Nov 02 '17 at 17:01
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The easiest way to run a command with root privileges at reboot is to put it in the root 'cron' using the special time @reboot. To do this, execute the command:
sudo crontab -e
And add a line
@reboot /path/to/myprogram.bin
You could append 2>&1 > /path/to/log_file.txt to send all output and error messages to a log file. By default, outputs from cron jobs are emailed to the root user which tends not to be terribly useful. Or you could configure your server to forward root emails to your own account.
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Hi, and by using rc.local? Just putting there the path to myprogram? – Martin.Martinsson Nov 02 '17 at 18:20
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What do you mean by 'and by using rc.local'? Please give more details. – nickcrabtree Nov 02 '17 at 21:27
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https://askubuntu.com/questions/88589/run-command-at-boot-as-root – Martin.Martinsson Nov 02 '17 at 21:32
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How to this this by using rc.local'? Just put the path of ma program into it to run it at system startup? – Martin.Martinsson Nov 02 '17 at 21:55