What I want to achive
(but did not so far…)
I want a Raspberry Pi to automatically run a slideshow after the boot sequence.
How I thought I’d do that
I have a working shell script that launches the slideshow:
#!/bin/bash sudo fbi -T 1 -noverbose -a -t 2 PathToMyPictures/*
I added a new service to /etc/init.d to be run when the machine boots:
#!/bin/sh # kFreeBSD do not accept scripts as interpreters, using #!/bin/sh and sourcing. if [ true != "$INIT_D_SCRIPT_SOURCED" ] ; then set "$0" "$@"; INIT_D_SCRIPT_SOURCED=true . /lib/init/init-d-script fi ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: slideshow # Required-Start: $remote_fs $syslog # Required-Stop: $remote_fs $syslog # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: runs slideshow on start # Description: This file automatically runs a slideshow script found at /home/pi/slideshow/slideshow.sh ### END INIT INFO # Author: Johannes Kalt <my@mailaddr.es> sudo /home/pi/slideshow/slideshow.sh
I set the rights for this file to 755 using:
sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/flickrd
I added the necessary links using update-rc.d as:
update-rc.d flickrd defaults
What is happening
In the boot sequence the shell script is run as I get a message of the slideshow program fbi stating PathToMyPictures/* loading FAILED.
When I manually start the script using sudo /etc/init.d/MyService start the script is run thus the slideshow shown.
Resources I’ve been using to find an answer (but did not so far)
https://debian-administration.org/article/28/Making_scripts_run_at_boot_time_with_Debian
in German:
I’ll be happy to read your comments and thoughts to get on with my troubleshooting!