Fedora Users — Re: Working script won't work in rc.local

"Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Barry Yu wrote:
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> ------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Working script won't work in rc.local
> From: Barry Yu
> To: Fedora list
> Date: 02/18/2008 09:10 AM
> > My working script won't work at startup when I inserted it into
> > rc.local - It works perfectly in terminal when I manually
> execute it
> > there. Am I putting my script in wrong place and how can I auto
> > execute it when starting up F8?
> > Thanks for helping
> >
> What is the first line of your script? Is it "#!/bin/bash"? Is
> it marked
> as executable? Is there more information you can give as to what is
> happening?
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> Here is my rc.local file, my script is the last line;
>
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> # This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
> # You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
> # want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.
>
> touch /var/lock/subsys/local
> /home/Scripts/./dumon
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> Below is the entire content of my script;
>
> xrandr --output VGA --auto --output TMDS-1 --auto --right-of VGA
>
It looks like xrandr requires connecting to an X server. When run
from rc.local, it does not have one. This is one of the things that
can cause scripts that work fine when you are logged in to fail when
run in startup scripts or cron jobs. Another thing to watch out for
is that the environment is not the same when running from the init
scripts or a cron job.

When you run the script from an xterm, DISPLAY is set, and you have
the proper authorization to connect to the X server.

Mikkel
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How can I achieve auto excute my dumon script when starting up F8?
Now I put my script in /usr/bin/domon, and modified the re.local file like below but still cannot execute the dumon script;

#!/bin/sh
#
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.

touch /var/lock/subsys/local
/usr/bin/dumon