How to add software to the start-up on Ubuntu.

[Leon van Heerden]

The start-up file "/etc/rc.local" can be used to add commands to that will execute on the start-up of the server. please ensure that any commands that you run will not return an error code/state since the script will stop executing at that point and no further commands in the file will be executed.

It is much better to place all your commands in a shell script and then call the shell script from the rc.local

/usr/local/bin/startmyapp.sh

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#!/bin/bash
/sbin/ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.10.2 2>&1 /dev/null


Now add your script to the startup
/etc/rc.local

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/usr/local/bin/startmyapp.sh