Trying to run rclone command at start-up Debian via /etc/rc3.d

userzero · 04-01-2020, 06:48 PM

Hello Everyone,

I'm trying to get rclone to auto-mount to Google Drive at system startup but am having some trouble. I put this command in /etc/init.d:

rclone mount --allow-non-empty Polaris: /mnt/Polaris ("Polaris" is my mount directory point in /mnt)

When I run this command manually from the command line it mounts successfully.
I placed that command in an executable file in /etc/init.d and then created a soft link to it in /etc/rc3.d
like this:

ln -s ../init.d/mount-remote S01mount-remote

Again, the file is executable via chmod 755 and resides in /etc/init.d:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 53 Apr 1 16:11 mount-remote

I restart the system and run the "mount" command and don't see it listed. Again, if I just run the command manually, "mount" shows that it is indeed mounted. I'm not sure what I'm missing here. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks Much!

-chris

michaelk · 04-01-2020, 07:07 PM

What debian version are you running? Anything after version 7 uses systemd if I can remember that far back...

There is no path environment and therefore you need to use the full path to rclone but if using /etc/init.d you really need to use a real LSB init script. In addition debian defaults to runlevel 2 back in the sysv days but your system may be configured differently. If your script is not configured correctly it also might be running before the network is available.

https://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts

If your running a debian version that uses systemd you can create a one time service that runs your command or even use rc.local which is basically the same thing.

userzero · 04-01-2020, 07:35 PM

Thanks for the reply. I'm running Testing Bullseye. It makes sense that if my command runs before networking is up, it wouldn't make it over to Google Drive. Could I just set my command's run sequence after the network has been initiated? I'm sort of new to this and am looking for the simplest solution.

Thanks again!

berndbausch · 04-01-2020, 08:07 PM

My Debian Buster has a systemd service named rc-local. It is launched after the networking target and runs /etc/rc.local start if /etc/rc.local exists and is executable.

You could put your code in /etc/rc.local, make that file executable and ensure that rc-local.service is enabled.

Code:

echo rclone mount --allow-non-empty Polaris: /mnt/Polaris  >> /etc/rc.local
chmod +x /etc/rc.local
systemctl enable rc-local

In case /etc/rc.local exists already, first check what's inside.