Execute script after each reboot

[mogholami (m gholami)]

Hi everyone,

I have a script that I want to execute automatically after each reboot of IPFire. I’m looking for something similar to ‘@reboot’ in the crontab on Ubuntu or a systemd service. Is there any way to achieve this? Thanks for your help.

[bonnietwin (Adolf Belka)]

Hi @mogholami

Welcome to the IPFire community.

Place your script in the rc.local script.

See the rc.local Docs page
https://www.ipfire.org/docs/pkgs/rc-local

[mogholami (m gholami)]

thanks a lot dear @bonnietwin.

[binabik (Binabik CC)]

Hi @mogholami ,

IPFire uses fcron which supports the @reboot shortcut. Please refer to the documentation:

http://fcron.free.fr/doc/en/fcrontab.5.html

Also check out this post about the recommended way to use frcron in IPFire, especially Adolf Belka’s answer:

My fcrontab file has been replaced by a new one

Here is a quick run down of how I set up a separate user fcrontab and use it for running scripts, including those that require root permissions. Create a non-login system user useradd -r -U -d / -s /bin/false -c "non root fcrontab user" fcronuser -r specifies that it is a system user -U tells it to also create a group with the same name -d defines the home directory as /, although no home directory is created for system users it is specified in the passwd file -s defines the login shell,…

Greetings.

[mogholami (m gholami)]

I appreciate your help, @binabik.

[bbitsch (Bernhard Bitsch)]

BTW, the difference between @reboot in fcrontab and rc.local is, that the crontab entries aren’t really executed at reboot but after start of fcron after a reboot. The rc.local file is integrated into the startup sequence.