The "easy" option...type the following in a command prompt:
crontab -e
Add the following entry to the crontab file:
@reboot python /home/pi/myscript.py &
If you want to create a service, do the following:
Create a new file by running:
sudo nano /etc/init.d/launch
Paste the following as the content of the file:
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: Launch - date / time / ip address
# Required-Start: $remote_fs $syslog
# Required-Stop: $remote_fs $syslog
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Launch Python Script
# Description: date / time / ip address
### END INIT INFO
#! /bin/sh
# /etc/init.d/launch
export HOME
case "$1" in
start)
echo "Starting Launch"
cd /home/pi/
/home/pi/launch.py 2>&1 &
;;
stop)
echo "Stopping Launch"
MY_PID=`ps auxwww | grep launch.py | head -1 | awk '{print $2}'`
kill -9 $MY_PID
;;
*)
echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/launch {start|stop}"
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
then run
sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/launch
sudo update-rc.d lcd defaults
make sure your script is also executable
sudo chmod +x /home/pi/launch.py
sample script as launch.py
#!/usr/bin/python
import subprocess
try:
subprocess.call(['/home/pi/scripts/webserver.py &'], shell=True)
except SystemExit, e:
print "sys.exit %s" % e
exit()
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