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<body> <div id="header"> <span class="left"> <span class="back"><a href="lthread_list.php?webtag=DEFAULT"><span class="image mobile_back" title="Back"></span></a></span> <span class="image mobile_logo" title="Beehive Forum Logo"></span> </span> <ul> <li> <a class="reply_all" href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41672.0&return_msg=41672.78"> <span class="image mobile_reply_all"></span><span class="text">Reply to All</span> </a> </li> <li> <a class="navigation" href="#"> <span class="image mobile_navigation"></span><span class="text">Show messages</span> </a> </li> <li> <a class="main" href="#"><span class="image mobile_menu" title="Menu"></span> </a> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="menu main"> <ul> <li><a href="lthread_list.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Messages</a></li> <li><a href="lpm.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Inbox</a></li> <li><a href="lsearch.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Search</a></li> <li><a href="llogon.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Login</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="menu navigation"><a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.1">1–10</a>…<a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.51">51–60</a><a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.61">61–70</a><a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.71">71–80</a><a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.81">81–90</a>…<a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.101">101</a></div> <div id="page_content"> <h3 class="thread_title"><a href="index.php?webtag=DEFAULT&amp;msg=41672.78">Booting lonely Linux</a> </h3> <div id="messages" data-navigation="41672_78_101_10"> <a name="a41672_78"></a><div class="message" id="message_41672_78"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Manthorp<span class="message_time">29 Jan 2016 11:21</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Manthorp <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 29 Jan 2016 11:21"></span></span> <span class="message_count">78 of 101</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.78">41672.78</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.77">41672.77</a></div> <div class="message_body"> I've also found <a href="http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/8734/execute-script-on-start-up">THIS</a>. The "<span style="color:rgb(34,36,38);font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:19.5px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);">solution that </span><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:15px;color:rgb(34,36,38);font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:19.5px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);">works on bootup to the console"</strong> takes a very different approach.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41672.78&return_msg=41672.78" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41672.78"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41672_79"></a><div class="message" id="message_41672_79"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)<span class="message_time">29 Jan 2016 11:41</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Manthorp <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 29 Jan 2016 11:42"></span></span> <span class="message_count">79 of 101</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.79">41672.79</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.78#a41672_78" target="_self">41672.78</a></div> <div class="message_body"> After boot means before login. That would launch your script as a daemon and would not (by default) output anywhere. The script's parent would be the init process rather than a particular terminal, like.<br /><br /> You want to launch the script as the child of the terminal after login, so you get output. So the best approach is to add it to /etc/profile (or ~/.bashrc (assuming you're using bash (you probably are))). /etc/profile will be run for any user that logs in whereas ~/.bashrc is specific to your user. Either is fine.<br /><br /> The code in your post above isn't quite right. You want to run your script with the node binary. The node binary is in your path (i.e. you can just call it by name like other system binaries). So you want to do:<br /> <div class="quotetext"><strong>Code:</strong> </div> <pre class="code"> node /path/to/your/file.js</pre> <br /> (I don't know why your index.js has a .sh extension. It shouldn't. It won't hurt but it's not right)<br /><br /> (The dot in your example is used to tell the shell to execute something that's not in your path. Since we're running node itself and then executing your script with node, you don't need it here)<br /> <div class="edit_text">EDITED: 29 Jan 2016 11:41 by X3N0PH0N</div> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41672.79&return_msg=41672.78" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41672.79"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41672_80"></a><div class="message" id="message_41672_80"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)<span class="message_time">29 Jan 2016 11:44</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Manthorp <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 29 Jan 2016 11:46"></span></span> <span class="message_count">80 of 101</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.80">41672.80</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.77">41672.77</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Oh and:<br /><br /> >I'm cautious of doing anything that might fuck up my access to the terminal window on boot, so I want to get my code right.<br /><br /> You have many TTYs (terminals, basically) available. I don't know which one Debian uses at boot but you can press ctrl+alt+f1, f2, f3 etc. to get to the others.<br /><br /> Also you can stop the running script with ctrl+c.<div class="edit_text">EDITED: 29 Jan 2016 11:44 by X3N0PH0N</div> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41672.80&return_msg=41672.78" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41672.80"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41672_81"></a><div class="message" id="message_41672_81"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Manthorp<span class="message_time">29 Jan 2016 11:46</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 29 Jan 2016 11:49"></span></span> <span class="message_count">81 of 101</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.81">41672.81</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.78#a41672_79" target="_self">41672.79</a></div> <div class="message_body"> *\o/* <span style="font-size:12.8px;">*\o/* *\o/* *\o/* *\o/* *\o/* <span class="emoticon e_pinochio" title="(imarealboy)"><span class="e__">(imarealboy)</span></span> <span class="emoticon e_hug" title="(hug)"><span class="e__">(hug)</span></span> <br /><br /> Thanks Xen, thanks Ant!!!</span></div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41672.81&return_msg=41672.78" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41672.81"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41672_82"></a><div class="message" id="message_41672_82"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)<span class="message_time">29 Jan 2016 11:49</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Manthorp <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 29 Jan 2016 15:39"></span></span> <span class="message_count">82 of 101</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.82">41672.82</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.78#a41672_81" target="_self">41672.81</a></div> <div class="message_body"> <span class="emoticon e_cheering" title="(cheer)"><span class="e__">(cheer)</span></span></div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41672.82&return_msg=41672.78" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41672.82"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41672_83"></a><div class="message" id="message_41672_83"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)<span class="message_time">29 Jan 2016 12:10</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Manthorp <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 29 Jan 2016 15:39"></span></span> <span class="message_count">83 of 101</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.83">41672.83</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.78#a41672_81" target="_self">41672.81</a></div> <div class="message_body"> I'm sure you won't want to touch this now for a while *but*...<br /><br /> You're running it on a virtual terminal now which is all good and that but you don't have much control over how it looks. You can set the font (from a very limited range of pixel fonts) and that's about it.<br /><br /> *If* you booted to a window manager and ran your script in a terminal within that you'd then be able to choose a nicer font (a ttf font), set up the colours and also (maybe more importantly) support any emoji people might use in their tweets (by installing symbola, should be in the repos) which can look quite nice on the terminal, <a href="http://i.imgur.com/DWfKTbH.png">like so</a>.<br /><br /> I'd be happy to write you a config for i3 which launches a terminal fullscreen and runs your script.<br /><br /> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41672.83&return_msg=41672.78" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41672.83"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41672_84"></a><div class="message" id="message_41672_84"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: koswix<span class="message_time">29 Jan 2016 12:16</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 29 Jan 2016 12:23"></span></span> <span class="message_count">84 of 101</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.84">41672.84</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.78#a41672_83" target="_self">41672.83</a></div> <div class="message_body"> What that font?</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41672.84&return_msg=41672.78" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41672.84"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41672_85"></a><div class="message" id="message_41672_85"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)<span class="message_time">29 Jan 2016 12:25</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: koswix <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 29 Jan 2016 12:30"></span></span> <span class="message_count">85 of 101</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.85">41672.85</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.78#a41672_84" target="_self">41672.84</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Ubuntu Mono. I really like the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28typeface%29">Ubuntu fonts</a>.<br /><br /> (Tangentially related, Red Hat <a href="http://overpassfont.org/">just released a libre font</a> which is also rather nice)<div class="edit_text">EDITED: 29 Jan 2016 12:32 by X3N0PH0N</div> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41672.85&return_msg=41672.78" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41672.85"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41672_86"></a><div class="message" id="message_41672_86"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Manthorp<span class="message_time">29 Jan 2016 21:49</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 29 Jan 2016 22:48"></span></span> <span class="message_count">86 of 101</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.86">41672.86</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.78#a41672_83" target="_self">41672.83</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Firstly, damn blast shit and bugger: it's suddenly stopped booting into the application. It autologs-in ok, but then stops on the attached error message. Have you any thoughts or sage advice?<br /><br /> (Edit: mended, thank fuckery. I reinstalled twit)<br /><br /><br /> Secondly, I rather like the minimal interface, but I agree that a little low-key tweaking as per your illustration would improve the legibility, so I think I'm up for trying it<div class="edit_text">EDITED: 29 Jan 2016 23:30 by MANTHORP</div> </div> <div class="message_attachments"> <span>Attachments:</span> <ul> <li><span class="image attach"></span><a href="get_attachment.php?webtag=DEFAULT&hash=dc3d4975a2fc0e067a424314178a99a5&filename=Bastard Pi.jpg" target="_blank">Bastard Pi.jpg</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41672.86&return_msg=41672.78" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41672.86"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a41672_87"></a><div class="message" id="message_41672_87"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)<span class="message_time">29 Jan 2016 23:32</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: Manthorp <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 30 Jan 2016 08:15"></span></span> <span class="message_count">87 of 101</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.87">41672.87</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=41672.78#a41672_86" target="_self">41672.86</a></div> <div class="message_body"> Looks like Gzip doesn't like what it's getting from Twitter. Is it persistently doing this or is it a one off? Also check you're actually connected to the net.<br /><br /> (I'll get the script and test it here. In the meantime I'll make another post with instructions as to how to launch this all in a WM)<br /> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=41672.87&return_msg=41672.78" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="41672.87"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="message_page_footer"> <ul> <li class="right_col"><form accept-charset="utf-8" method="get" action="lmessages.php" target="_self"><input type="hidden" name="webtag" id="webtag" class="bhinputtext" value="DEFAULT" dir="ltr" /><input type="hidden" name="msg" id="msg" class="bhinputtext" value="41672.88" dir="ltr" /><input type="submit" name="submit" id="keep_reading" value="Keep reading…" class="button" /></form></li> </ul> </div> </div> </body>