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Ultimately I'm trying to get a program to run at start up and work correctly.

I have been successful in getting it to show up in running processes after a reboot, but it doesn't seem like it is working correctly.

I started to troubleshoot the problem and I came across some interesting discoveries.

I am running openmediavault 1.0.20 which is based on Debian Wheezy and logged in as root with ssh.

Path to uTorrent install: /opt/utorrent

If I enter 

cd /opt/utorrent          
./utserver

utserver runs and I'm able to to access the webui by server'sip:8080/gui

However when I run 

cd /
/opt/utorrent/utserver

utserver runs but the web ui is not accessible. I don't understand why one way works and yet the other doesn't.

Once I can get the webui to work after running /opt/utorrent/utserver the modifications I made to rc.local should work correclty

Current contents of rc.local

#!/bin/sh -e
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# value on error.
#
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
#
# By default this script does nothing.

#Auto run uTorrent at start up
#su ut -c '/opt/utorrent/utserver &'
sudo /opt/utorrent/utserver &


exit 0
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    It's possible that utserver looks for a configuration file in the directory it's started from. Something like "use from current directory, or else from user's home directory, or else hard-coded defaults" sounds reasonable, and maybe the defaults don't have the web interface enabled. The docs should be able to tell you. Commented Nov 23, 2014 at 15:11

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  1. Don't use sudo in init scripts. They're run as root to start with.

  2. If you were to use sudo in /etc/rc.local (which as per #1 there is no point in doing), you need to provide a $PATH or the path to the executable because there is no $PATH set when this is run at boot by init. So, e.g., if you wanted to run ls, first find out where it is:

    whereis ls ls: /usr/bin/ls /usr/share/man/man1p/ls.1p.gz /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz

    So, you either need:

    export PATH=/usr/bin/  # At the top
- OR -
/usr/bin/ls   # Where you want to run it.

Beware that processes started from an init script must background themselves, your

/opt/utorrent/utserver &

Should be fine.

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