Application Autostart - no effect

[noah++]

Hi,

I want my sshfs automounter to start when I log in. I made an entry in the Application Autostart area of my settings for this command,


afuse -o mount_template='sshfs -o reconnect %r: %m' -o nonempty -o unmount_template='fusermount -u -z %m' ~/sshfs/

but it seems to have no effect. If it worked, then issuingls ~/sshfs/me@ssh.mysite.com would succeed. It doesn't work. Yet if I use the same afuse command in a shell, it does work.

Ideas?

[ankspo71]

Hi,
It is usually better if we create scripts for the longer or complex commands.


#!/bin/sh

afuse -o mount_template='sshfs -o reconnect %r: %m' -o nonempty -o unmount_template='fusermount -u -z %m' ~/sshfs/

Now save the above code as sshfs-automounter.sh and put somewhere in your home folder.

Now right click on sshfs-automounter.sh, select properties, then in the permissions tab, check the box that says "Allow this file to run as program". Or you can use chmod +x to make the script executable:

chmod +x /path/to/sshfs-automounter.sh

Then you need to add it to your startup list:

Name: sshfs automounter
Command: sh /path/to/sshfs-automounter.sh

(The "sh" might not be needed in xfce's startup manager).