Start irexec on boot with a script

Question

I created a file in /etc/init.d/startirexec.sh with the contents:

#! /bin/bash

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          irexec
# Required-Start:    $all
# Required-Stop:     $all
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: starts instance of irexec
# Description:       starts instance of irexec
### END INIT INFO

irexec -d
exit 0

I then do a

sudo chmod +x startirexec.sh
sudo update-rc.d startirexec.sh defaults

Everything seems to go ok. I reboot but irexec is not loaded. If I do a

sudo ./startirexec.sh

manually it loads just fine. Am I missing something?

Answer 1

You can use UDEV to start programs such as irexec when a remote control is added, such as a MCE receiver.

Create a UDEV rule:

sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/irexec.rules

And paste in the following:

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="rc", RUN+="/usr/bin/irexec -d"

The Udev man page contains more information for putting together more advanced rules.