Vlc startup script

[mulja]

Hi
how to made start up script after reboot on my ubuntu server
what i am done

sudo touch /etc/init.d/vlc

#!/bin/sh

echo "`date`;Reloaded" >> /home/mulja/vlc.log

#
killall -9 vlc

sleep 2

if [ $1 ]
then
SOURCE=$1
else
SOURCE=/home/mulja/vlm.conf
fi

vlc -vvv --ttl 12 -I telnet --http-reconnect --http-caching=10000 --vlm-conf vlm.conf

sudo update-rc.d vlc defaults

sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/vlc

what i am doing wrong

[billx]

Hi,

First, the command "sudo update-rc.d vlc defaults" need to know what are the defaults settings.
Add this to your file :

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### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: vlc # Required-Start: # Required-Stop: # Should-Start: $network # Should-Stop: # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: VLC # Description: VLC daemon with HTTP interface. ### END INIT INFO

Then you will have problems starting vlc as root. Use vlc_wrapper instead.

If you want, you can use this template to run the vlc daemon properly :

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#!/bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: vlcd # Required-Start: $remote_fs # Required-Stop: $remote_fs # Should-Start: $network # Should-Stop: # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: VLC daemon # Description: VLC daemon with HTTP interface. ### END INIT INFO PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin DAEMON_BIN=/usr/bin/vlc NAME=vlcd DESC="VLC daemon" PIDFILE=/tmp/vlcd.pid [ -x "$DAEMON_BIN" ] || exit 0 DAEMON_OPTS="//// Your option here /////" USER="///// Your user name ////" . /lib/lsb/init-functions case "$1" in start) export DISPLAY=:0.0 log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" "$NAME" start-stop-daemon --start --oknodo --quiet --chuid $USER --exec "$DAEMON_BIN" \ --pidfile "$PIDFILE" -- $DAEMON_OPTS > /dev/null 2>&1 log_end_msg "$?" ;; stop) log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC" "$NAME" start-stop-daemon --stop --oknodo --quiet --exec "$DAEMON_BIN" \ --pidfile "$PIDFILE" log_end_msg "$?" ;; restart) $0 stop sleep 8 $0 start ;; status) status_of_proc "$DAEMON_BIN" "$NAME" -p "$PIDFILE" exit $? ;; *) N=/etc/init.d/$NAME echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|status}" >&2 exit 1 ;; esac exit 0

You have to change DAEMON_OPTS and USER.

You may have to change the line (if you don't need videos, don't worry about that)
export DISPLAY=:0.0
(Run "echo $DISPLAY" in a terminal to what should be after =)

[mulja]

Thanks for answer
what i have to write in
DAEMON_OPTS
i just want what vlc start after reboot
and run my vlm.conf file
vlc -vvv --ttl 12 -I telnet --http-reconnect --http-caching=10000 --vlm-conf vlm.conf

[billx]

This should work :

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#!/bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: vlc # Required-Start: # Required-Stop: # Should-Start: $network # Should-Stop: # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: VLC # Description: VLC ### END INIT INFO echo "`date`;Reloaded" >> /home/mulja/vlc.log # If it's a reboot, you probably don't need this !?! # killall -9 vlc # sleep 2 # if [ $1 ] # then # SOURCE=$1 # else # SOURCE=/home/mulja/vlm.conf # fi /usr/bin/vlc-wrapper -vvv --ttl 12 -I telnet --http-reconnect --http-caching=10000 --vlm-conf vlm.conf

You should use the absolute path to vlm.conf.
Your if loop is not useful here, I guess you plan to use it.

Then run the same 2 lines :

sudo update-rc.d vlc defaults

sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/vlc

[hurr1c4n]

Hi there!

I know that this thread is really old but I have a question about my startup script.

My script is something like this:

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#!/bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: vlcd # Required-Start: $remote_fs # Required-Stop: $remote_fs # Should-Start: $network # Should-Stop: # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: VLC daemon # Description: VLC daemon with HTTP interface. ### END INIT INFO PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin DAEMON_BIN=/usr/bin/vlc-wrapper NAME=vlcd DESC="VLC daemon" PIDFILE=/tmp/vlcd.pid [ -x "$DAEMON_BIN" ] || exit 0 DAEMON_OPTS="--ttl 10 --vlm-conf /vlc/zdf-dlf.vlm" USER="user" . /lib/lsb/init-functions case "$1" in start) export DISPLAY=:0.0 log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" "$NAME" start-stop-daemon --start --background --oknodo --quiet --chuid "$USER" --make-pidfile --pidfile "$PIDFILE" --exec "$DAEMON_BIN" -- $DAEMON_OPTS > /dev/null 2>&1 log_end_msg "$?" ;; stop) log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC" "$NAME" start-stop-daemon --stop --oknodo --quiet --pidfile "$PIDFILE" log_end_msg "$?" ;; restart) $0 stop sleep 8 $0 start ;; status) status_of_proc "$DAEMON_BIN" "$NAME" -p "$PIDFILE" exit $? ;; *) N=/etc/init.d/$NAME echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|status}" >&2 exit 1 ;; esac exit 0

This script works fine if I am already logged in. As the user I want run with or with user root.

I also made a symbol link in /etc/rc2.d to the init.d script.

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S20vlc -> ../init.d/vlc

My problem is, that everytime the server starts the script runs and the vlc-wrapper would be started. But the stream doesn't work. If I stop the deamon manually and start it on the commandline again, everything is working fine.

Have anyone an idea where my problem is located?

Kind regards,
Thomas