How can I run a Perl script automatically after a Ubuntu server has booted up?

Question

I wrote a Perl script which will serve as a daemon, so I'd like to let the OS (in my case, Ubuntu Linux) automatically run my Perl script after it has booted up.

How can I do that?

Answer 1

Make a shell script wrapper for your perl script

#!/bin/sh - script.sh
# your perl program goes here

/bin/perl /path/to/foobar.pl

Make sure that you have given executable permission using

  chmod +x script.sh

and execute the following,

sudo update-rc.d script.sh defaults

This will run perl script on each startup.