I do the following:

1. I have an init.d script that sources the correct setup.sh, and
rosruns the actual init.d script in a ROS package.
2. The init.d script in the ROS package uses start-stop-daemon, or
your distro's variant to start/stop roslaunch.

I do this two step method because I always find myself wanting to make
simultaneous changes to the launch file and the init.d script. By
having only a stub in /etc/init.d, I can pretty much guarantee that
the stub never has to change.

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Robbie Plankenhorn
<rplankenhorn@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been trying to get my ROS stack to launch automatically when Ubuntu
> starts up and I am having some issues.  I have tried to implement an init
> script but I wasn't able to get it to work.  I think it has something to do
> with the setup.sh init scripts that are required to be in the .bashrc file
> in order to find the stack.
> What is the best way to get an ROS stack to start at boot time?  Is this the
> correct approach?  If so, then are their any tricks to getting it to work?
> Thanks,
> Robbie
>
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