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How to execute script file at startup without using any commands like ln -s or any other to be executed at first?
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Interesting question. Thanks for pointing out files in /etc/rc0.d you learn something new every day!
Create directory to drop your scripts into
First you need to create a directory of scripts you want automatically run at startup. I would suggest creating it within /usr/local/bin but it can be anywhere:
sudo mkdir /usr/local/bin/startup-scripts
Modify rc.local to run all your scripts
Then type gksu gedit /etc/rc.local to edit the startup script that has sudo powers.
Before the last line that says exit 0 copy and paste these lines:
for SCRIPT in /usr/local/bin/startup-scripts/*
do
sudo chmod +x $SCRIPT ```
$SCRIPT ```
done
Optionally, for every script in the startup-scripts directory, I would put in something like:
echo "running script xyz within /usr/local/bin/startup-scripts"
as this message will appear in /var/log/syslog file and document your system setup.