[dundee] A Python got me by the Neck...

[James Le Cuirot]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:08:07 +0100 (BST)
Lee Hughes <toxicnaan at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> God, I'm tearing my hair out with this.
> 
> I'm trying to run a python script on boot using ubuntu, but it just
> does'nt want to start.
> 
> usually I'll make a script in /etc/init.d , the make a symbolic link
> from the runlevel I need to that in /etc/rc2.d/
> 
> but, the python script does'nt want to start. I think it may either
> be a enviroment problem , or python can't see the correct lib's when
> booting?
> 
> However, there is a script which starts a python printer daemon, I've
> copied that, and tried to make my python program run...
> 
> no luck...
> 
> any idea's. I've not got console access, so I'm not sure if I'm
> getting any nasty  errors messages on start.
> 
> 
> any ideas linux heads?
> 
> Laters,
> Lee

Two things to check. Make sure the shebang is correct. That's the first
line. It should be #!/usr/bin/python or similar. Also check that the
file is executable. chmod 755! Those are the only obvious problems I can
think of although you have probably already made sure that it works when
you run it manually.

James