[ros-users] Best way to start a launch file automatically on startup

[Cedric Pradalier]

Hello,

I find quite useful to start my launch inside a screen to be able to 
monitor it easily after boot time if needed.
Otherwise, I use the same setup

HTH

On 10/25/2010 09:27 PM, Blaise Gassend wrote:
> 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 at 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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