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

[Bruce Stewart]

On Tuesday 31 July 2007 22:08:07 Lee Hughes 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
>
>
>
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Not to be stating the obvious, :) have you made the script executable? Have 
you tried it out with a really short test script?

Bruce S.