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I have been unsuccessfully trying to configure my Ubuntu 14.04 server to start rpcbind on boot.
RPCbind is installed and works fine if I start it manually with
service rpcbind start
I have added the symlinks to the runlevel directories automatically using the command
update-rc.d rpcbind defaults
For the record, I tried other variations of the previous command, such as update-rc.d rpcbind start 2345 and update-rc.d rpcbind enable 2345. None of them created the symlinks, only update-rc.d rpcbind defaults did.
Now, in my default runlevel, there is a symlink that looks like this: 

S20rpcbind -> ../init.d/rpcbind

Even with this, when I reboot the server, rpcbind does not start automatically. Any help to make this work will be appreciated! Thanks.

Neo_999
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  • You have to remove rcpbind-boot.override in /etc/init (look at Ubuntu upstart wiki)! –  Mar 08 '15 at 21:39

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I finally found one way to do it that works. I simply added the command service rpcbind start inside the /etc/rc.local script. I don't know if this is the proper way to do it, but it works.

Neo_999
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Like Neo_999 says you can add stuff to your /etc/rc.local and for already declared services this works well.

For things without a service-declaration, you can fake it through GNU screen:

sudo -u $USER -- screen -d -m $EXECUTABLE

This let's you spawn a pre-detached screen-session with an arbitrary $EXECUTABLE running as $USER.

Hacky as heck, but it does work and saves you the trouble of writing init-scripts.

Jostein Kjønigsen
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