Run script at boot

[sisco311]

hmmm, I just installed mediatomb. You can set the user & group in /etc/default/mediatomb & you have to edit the DAEMON_ARGS variable in the /etc/init.d/mediatomb init script:

...
DAEMON_ARGS="-c /home/anton/.mediatomb/config.xml -d -u $USER -g $GROUP -P $PIDFILE -l $LOGFILE $INTERFACE_ARG $OPTIONS"

This is clearly a BUG, the init script should read the location of the config file from /etc/default/mediatomb.

[anton_pm]

This is clearly a BUG, the init script should read the location of the config file from /etc/default/mediatomb.

Definitely is and seems well known. I'm trying to get around this. I think the best way is to remove the entry from rc.* using update-rc so that script isn't called and then maybe use upstart.

Do you know what I would put in an upstart conf to make it load on boot?

[sisco311]

Definitely is and seems well known. I'm trying to get around this. I think the best way is to remove the entry from rc.* using update-rc so that script isn't called and then maybe use upstart.

Do you know what I would put in an upstart conf to make it load on boot?

This one works for me:
/etc/init/mediatomb.conf:

# mediatomb
#

description     "mediatomb"
author          "sisco311"

start on net-device-up

stop on runlevel [016]

emits starting-mediatomb


script
  mediatomb -u sisco -g sisco -m /home/sisco
end script

[anton_pm]

This one works for me:
/etc/init/mediatomb.conf:

And for me too

I guess I need to learn more about upstart.