Ubuntu (12.04) upstart (at boot) services

chirag1992m

Apr 7, 2013 2 min read

Create a shell script. (Name it whatever you want. Here I am assuming it to be “autorun.sh”)
```
vi autorun.sh
```

Copy the shell script to /etc/init.d/

sudo cp autorun.sh /etc/init.d/autorun.sh

Make the script executable.
```
sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/autorun.sh
```
Update the upstart table of ubuntu by creating symbolic links.
```
sudo update-rc.d autorun.sh defaults
```
Done.

Update the upstart table of ubuntu by creating symbolic links.
```
sudo update-rc.d service_name defaults
```
Enable a disabled upstart service
```
sudo update-rc.d service_name enable
```

(option-1)
update the table and remove the script(not necessary)

sudo update-rc.d -f autorun.sh remove
sudo rm /etc/init.d/autorun.sh (optional)

(option-2)
Disable the service from boot
```
sudo update-rc.d -f autorun.sh disable
```

(option-3)
if there is a configuration file for the script in /etc/init/

sudo echo 'manual' | /etc/init/scriptname.override
sudo update-rc.d -f scriptname remove

4 responses to “Ubuntu (12.04) upstart (at boot) services”

Dabba says:

April 7, 2013 at 8:36 am

Can you explain a little what does an upstart means??
-3rd yr, CSE, IIT whatever :-/

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1. chirag1992m says:
  
  April 7, 2013 at 11:25 am
  
  Upstart in simple language is basically an event-based service starter. service can be anything, from a daemon process like apache, mysql to any shell script you want.
  Here I am particularly talking abut the event when a system boots.
  
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  1. Rain says:
    
    May 25, 2013 at 9:51 pm
    
    upstart and update-rc.d are not the same thing.
    
    update-rc.d manages old-style sysvinit scripts.
    
    upstart is a completely different animal, with completely different rules. Ubuntu is slowly migrating from old-style sysvinit to upstart, but a lot of things still use the old system (like, regrettably, apache as installed from official repos), so there are both /etc/init.d and /etc/init in an Ubuntu install, and they are not the same at all.
    
    http://upstart.ubuntu.com/
    
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ActionParsnip says:

July 17, 2013 at 1:50 pm

“sudo echo ‘manual’ | /etc/init/scriptname.override”

won’t work, sudo does not traverse the pipe. You will need to use:

echo ‘manual’ | sudo tee /etc/init/scriptname.override

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