How can I make “rc.local” run on startup?

http://askubuntu.com/questions/9853/how-can-i-make-rc-local-run-on-startup

 

Can you run your script manually? If not, it's a problem with that script; otherwise look more at rc.local. (If that script needs to run as root, you need use sudo to manually run it.)

Make sure /etc/rc.local is executable and that the script it calls is also executable.

$ ls -l /etc/rc.local
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 419 2010-08-27 11:26 /etc/rc.local

Make sure rc.local has a shebang line (which is the default):

$ head -n1 /etc/rc.local
#!/bin/sh -e