How to run cgminer on boot?

Question

I have the following commands I want to run when the raspberry pi boots up, it is for my bitcoin minner to start:

cd /home/pi/cgminer-4.5.0
sudo ./cgminer -o http://xxxxxxxxxxx -u xxxxxxxx -p xxxxxxxxxx

How can I do this? As I have currently set it up using nohup but this only autostarts when I ssh into the pi and stops working when I close the connection. I want this code to run automatically on startup and keep running constantly. I am running Raspbian.

Solution

put the following code into : /etc/init.d/rc.local:

/home/pi/cgminer-4.5.0/cgminer -o http://xxxxxxxxxxx -u xxxxxxxx -p xxxxxxxxxx

Comments

[smw]

Crossposted from here askubuntu.com/questions/526323/how-to-run-a-script-on-boot

[terdon]

@steeldriver yes, I asked them to delete the AU one since it's off topic there and I suggested the OP post here instead.

[Ludwig Schulze]

Any reason why you should start cgminer with root permissions?

[user1685880]

I have tried starting it without root permissions, but get the error no usb connected, by starting it in root fixes the error for some reason

[Ludwig Schulze]

I would recommend you to ask another question about that problem. cgminer should work fine without root privileges.

[user1685880]

Thanks this seem to be working fine for me and so simple thanks :)