How to run commands on startup

[Taffman]

I need to run the following commands each time I boot up:

sudo setserial /dev/ttyS4 uart 16550A
sudo setserial /dev/ttyS5 uart 16550A
sudo setserial /dev/ttyS6 uart 16550A
sudo setserial /dev/ttyS7 uart 16550A

I have tried adding them to /etc/rc.local but i don't think Mint reads this file on startup.

an anyone tell me where I can store the above commands so that they are executed on startup please?

[russellz]

Try /etc/init.d/rc.local ?

Russell.

[viking777]

Commands executed from /etc/rc.local (or /etc/init.d/rc.local if you decide to try that) are run as root so they do not require sudo. Remove sudo from the commands and see if it makes any difference - I don't know if it will, but it is worth a try.

[Taffman]

Nope, that didn't work either.

[viking777]

OK lets start with the simple questions - have you tried running these commands after startup from a terminal and if so do they work - you haven't said. Without an answer to that question everything else is irrelevant.

[Taffman]

These commands work when manually entered in Terminal.
but these settings do not persist after a reboot.


not sure if I need "sudo" here though, i do in Terminal from my user account.

[viking777]

OK this is what I would try:

Make a shell script from the commands you want to run:

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#!/bin/bash

setserial /dev/ttyS4 uart 16550A
setserial /dev/ttyS5 uart 16550A
setserial /dev/ttyS6 uart 16550A
setserial /dev/ttyS7 uart 16550A

Save it as setserial.sh and make it executable. If, as you say above you don't need sudo to run these commands you can save it to your home folder.

Now go to the program 'Startup Application' and add a new entry. Call it Setserial (or anything you like it doesn't matter) make the command to run

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/home/yourusername/setserial.sh

I hope you appreaciate that it has to be your real username, not what I have just typed.

I start several programs this way and it always works for me, if it doesn't then it may be a permissions issue in which case my instinct would be to move setserial.sh to /usr/bin and change the ownership to root. I don't know if this works - I have never tried it.

[Taffman]

Ok I'll try that. thanks for your help.

[Taffman]

I cant seem to get any scripts to run on startup using the Startup Applications menu option or by adding commands to /etc/rc.local
Anyone know the trick to this?

[bigj231]

Did you set the script to executable?

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chmod 775 yourscriptnamehere

[Taffman]

Yep tried that still doesn't work.