Starting processes&daemons automatically

[emninger]

Related to how start processes automatically, looked into the FAQ and what i found there, for what i understand, that there should be scripts in

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/usr/local/tce.installed.

Especially, i want conky and tor to be started on boot. Now, there is a script (for both one). But seem to me not starter but rather installer. Should i edit those scripts adding simply a line in the end like

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conky -c $HOME/.conkyrc? (Is the '-c' needed? Starting from RunProgram in the wbar, conky is sufficient, it reads the .conkyrc in the home directory and not the conky.conf which came by default).

As for tor: Will tor look automatically to the $HOME/.tor/torrc?

Thanks al lot for your patience!

[Misalf]

For Conky,  -c $HOME/.conkyrc  is not needed.
I start Conky from  ~/.X.d/60-conky 

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conky -p 2 -d -b -o >/dev/null 2>&1 &
The file doesn't need a line break nor does it need to be executable as it's sourced from  ~/.xsession .

[Misalf]

For things that don't need X, you can use  /opt/bootlocal.sh

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sleep 1 && [ -e /usr/local/sbin/basic-firewall ] && /usr/local/sbin/basic-firewall noprompt >/dev/null 2>&1 &


[emninger]

For Conky,  -c $HOME/.conkyrc  is not needed.
I start Conky from  ~/.X.d/60-conky 

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conky -p 2 -d -b -o >/dev/null 2>&1 &
The file doesn't need a line break nor does it need to be executable as it's sourced from  ~/.xsession .

The '-o' is needed even if there is a window definition in the conkyrc? I start conky simply by conky  -d ...

[Misalf]

No, sorry. Actually none of those are needed. I have own_window in my config, too.
-p can help sometimes though.

[emninger]

Comes up to my mind: Since i use fluxbox, not flwm, could i set this processes in the fluxbox startup file as well?

[emninger]

For things that don't need X, you can use  /opt/bootlocal.sh

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sleep 1 && [ -e /usr/local/sbin/basic-firewall ] && /usr/local/sbin/basic-firewall noprompt >/dev/null 2>&1 &


Just out of curiousity and to learn something linuxwise: For what it's good the ">/dev/null 2>&1" part?

[Greg Erskine]

Just out of curiousity and to learn something linuxwise: For what it's good the ">/dev/null 2>&1" part?

A quick search gave me 914,000 results 

[emninger]

Got it 

[Misalf]

Comes up to my mind: Since i use fluxbox, not flwm, could i set this processes in the fluxbox startup file as well?

No, *box'es are getting started in a way where those WM specific startup/autostart scripts won't be used.
/opt/bootsync.sh ,  /opt/bootlocal.sh  and especially  ~/X.d/*  should be everything you need though. Also it's independent from the Window Manager in use. So you can try another WM without missing your auto-starting programs.

[emninger]

Thanks!!!

And thanks for your patience - you're a good teacher!