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I have a script running at boot time, however it's giving me errors I see in the log file. When I run it manually, it runs fine - probably the environment is changed. Is there a way to run such a script in conditions it's running at boot without restarting? Script is located in |
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You could run as root
This will clear your environment before running the script, however, it will also keep your
This will then run the script using I have found a similar question for simulating the crontab environment and there is a very useful solution posted by mmccoo. Using this you could run this in a script and reboot the host, then use the environment file to load your environment: part of a boot script:
Then at normal runtime to set the same boot environment, do this: |
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If you are using |
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Some things that may be different when a program is started via a user session rather than a startup script:
To run a program with a minimal environment and close the standard file descriptors, you can use something like Check the |
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Without more information about what your script is doing and what errors you're getting, it's difficult to give an accurate answer. That being said, it's probably possible to recreate the environment, but it will likely be very difficult, requiring to unmount or bind-mount filesystems or other such fun things. An alternative could be to create a virtual machine using something like VirtualBox or KVM and perform your debugging using that, allowing you to reboot the virtual machine as often as require without requiring you to reboot your host machine. |
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/etc/init.d/,/etc/rc.local,crontabentry@reboot)? – Anthon Oct 8 '14 at 8:16su -, which clears the environment unlikesuorsudo sh. Of course, that won't solve the problem if it's related to the order in which services have started up. – o11c Oct 8 '14 at 8:17