Run script on startup with Cron on ubilinux 4.9.45

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aghiles
aghiles New Member Posts: 2

hello,

I would to run python script after each start of my UP Board. For that, i used cron to do it.

In my crontab i wrote this :
@reboot sleep 90 && /usr/bin/python3.5 /usr/bin/myScriptPython.py

The problem is that my script does not always run, after starting of my UP Board.

So can you help me please ?

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  • DCleri
    DCleri Administrator, AAEON Posts: 1,213 admin
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    Just for your reference, You are using ubilinux based on debian Stretch, which is not supported anymore.

    In general to do that I would suggest you to use a init script to do that.
    In case of ubilinux you are still using the SystemV init.
    If you would move to a newer distribution/system you can take care of that using a systemd service

  • aghiles
    aghiles New Member Posts: 2
    edited October 2020
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    @DCleri said:
    Just for your reference, You are using ubilinux based on debian Stretch, which is not supported anymore.

    In general to do that I would suggest you to use a init script to do that.
    In case of ubilinux you are still using the SystemV init.
    If you would move to a newer distribution/system you can take care of that using a systemd service

    @DCleri

    Thanks for your answer.

    Can you please give me a link to a tutorial that uses init script ?

    Thanks a lot

  • DCleri
    DCleri Administrator, AAEON Posts: 1,213 admin
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    After checking again also Ubilinux uses Systemd, so you can refer to the following on how to start a script/application at startup:

    https://askubuntu.com/questions/919054/how-do-i-run-a-single-command-at-startup-using-systemd