Which of the shell script runs last on startup?

[WIckedWitch]

Just a quickie that someone will probably know off the top of their head;

I want to make the pmcputemp program run and have the temperature visible in the tray when I start up tahrpup-6.0.5. Which of the startup shell scripts do I have to put the command in?

[OscarTalks]

Recommended way is to use a .desktop file in /root/.config/autostart
A script or symlink in /root/Startup will still also work as an alternative, but they are trying to phase that mechanism out apparently.

The mods might move this as it does not really belong in the HOWTO (Solutions) section.
Best to post questions in the Beginners or Users section.

[greengeek]

Make your script and place it in /root/Startup.

Call it "zzzpmccputemp". Pretty sure scripts run in alphabetical order. Thats how i do it anyway.

[musher0]

Yep. In /root/Startup is good.

From experience, I can tell you that some window managers or panels
do NOT pick up what's in /root/.config/autostart. E.g. echinus, pekwm,
bmpanel2.

The new jwm tray picks up stuff in /root/.config/autostart.. But be on
the alert, double-check, if you are using any other WM.

I had to write a special script for bmpanel2's tray:

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#... (excerpt)
     echinus|pekwm|waimea|wmx)if [ "`pgrep bmpanel2`" ];then killall -q bmpanel2
          else
               for i in netmon_wce freememapplet_tray powerapplet_tray firewallstatus retrovol;do
                    killall -q $i
               done
#               kill -s 15 `ps | awk '$4=="yad" && $6 ~ /Boussole/ { print $1}'`

               cd /root/.config/autostart # Other WMs do not seem to pick up the autostart list.
               ls -1 *.desktop > /tmp/autostart.lst
               while read starts;do
                    Exec="`awk -F"=" '$1 ~ /Exec/ { print $2 }' $starts | awk '{ print $1 }'`"
                    [ "`pgrep $Exec`" ] || rox $starts
               done < /tmp/autostart.lst
               sleep 0.4s
#... (excerpt) 

I have to kill netmon_wce, freememapplet_tray, powerapplet_tray,
firewallstatus, retrovol and yad, and restart them to get them to appear
in the bmpanel2 tray.

Greengeek is right, scripts/progs in ~/Startup are run in alphabetical
order.

So the answer to your question is:
the last script to run during startup is the one whose first letter in the
name is closest to "z" in ~/Startup.

IHTH.

[WIckedWitch]

Recommended way is to use a .desktop file in /root/.config/autostart
A script or symlink in /root/Startup will still also work as an alternative, but they are trying to phase that mechanism out apparently.

The mods might move this as it does not really belong in the HOWTO (Solutions) section.
Best to post questions in the Beginners or Users section.

Yep - putting a script in /root/Startup worked. Thanks to all for replies

Mods pls feel free to move this thread elsewhere if I've not started it in the appropriate place.

[drunkjedi]

In Fatdog placing script in /root/Startup works.

There's no /root/.config/autostart folder though.
I don't know creating one will work.

There are also /etc/xdg/autostart and /etc/xdg/Startup folders which also run scripts/.desktop files on startup. (but this maybe only for fatdog, as these are for multiuser system)

[musher0]

Hi gang.

Tangent, but off-topic*, provided with the hope of thoroughly
confusing your neurones , here are a couple of other places
where you can start scripts from:

/etc/rc.d/rc.local
/etc/init.d

* (It's off topic because scripts placed in /etc/init.d or in the rc.local file
will run in the middle of the startup process, not at the very end. Use
these locations with care, BTW. If you start something too early
in the process, it may not work, or may prevent another script
from running, or cancel it out.)

BFN.

[rockedge]

I use both to start during boot apache, mariadb, php 7 zoneminder.

I have to use start scripts in the correct order or for example the starting of zoneminder will fail if the mariadb is not fully started first ... so using
/etc/rc.d/rc.local
/etc/init.d
to spread the start scripts out makes it all work smoothly.