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On Sunday 22 August 2010, it occurred to Mahmood Naderan to exclaim:
> I am trying to execute this script before login:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> date > /home/mahmood/dateatboot.txt
> echo "In local file"
> /usr/bin/python2.6 /home/mahmood/sendip.py
> echo "python script finished"
> after restart, dateatboot.txt was created shows that the script was
> executed. In the python file, I have this:
> import smtplib, commands, os, datetime
> # find IP address and write to file
> print 'I am in python file'
> f = open('.ip.txt', 'w')
> f.write( commands.getoutput("ifconfig").split("\n")[1].split()[1][5:])
> f.close()
> ...
>
> After boot there is no .ip.txt file.

Where are you looking? Do you actually know in which working directory your
script is being executed?

How about something like this:

#!/bin/sh

cd /home/mahmood/

python sendip.py >sendip.log 2>&1


.... this will write Python's output to a log file. If there is an exception,
you'd be able to see it.

>
>
> // Naderan *Mahmood;
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Thomas Jollans <>
> To: python-
> Sent: Sun, August 22, 2010 3:17:57 PM
> Subject: Re: Running python script before user login
>
> On Sunday 22 August 2010, it occurred to Mahmood Naderan to exclaim:
> > >Specify exactly how it's not working.
> >
> > I have wrote a script to send my ip address to an email address. It does
> > work when I am login (python sendip.py). I then followed the procedure in
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RcLocalHowto. However after restart, no
> > email is sent.
>
> The first step would be to make sure your init script is actually running.
> Add some simple command that you know will not fail, and where you can see
> easily that it worked. Say, you could use
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> date > /home/[USER]/Desktop/created_during_boot.txt
>
> as an init script. Then you could see that, if the file was created on your
> desktop, that the script is running at all. When you know that, THEN you
> can start to worry about Python
>
> (I think Ubuntu probably doesn't bring up the network before NetworkManager
> does this after login. So you might just not be able to send e-mail before
> login. You can check this by saving the output of /sbin/ifconfig somewhere)
>
> > // Naderan *Mahmood;
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Chris Rebert <>
> > To: Mahmood Naderan <>
> > Cc: python mailing list <python->
> > Sent: Sun, August 22, 2010 1:28:45 PM
> > Subject: Re: Running python script before user login
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 1:52 AM, Mahmood Naderan <>
>
> wrote:
> > > I have wrote a python script and want to run it before user login. To
> > > do that, I have added it to the ubuntu startup file (init.d). However
> > > it seems that the script doesn't work.
> >
> > Specify exactly how it's not working.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Chris
> > --
> > More details = Better assistance