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Per various tutorials I've done the following:

created a file called ftpserver.py in /home/root/

created a file in /etc/init.d/ called ftpserver that looks like this"

#!/bin/sh
python /home/root/ftpserver.py

Upon creation, I ran the following (to make it executable, apparently)

root@beaglebone1:/etc/init.d# chmod +x ftpserver

But it doesn't appear to be running on startup. However if I run the following command:

root@beaglebone1:/etc/init.d# /etc/init.d/ftpserver

Then the script runs, exectuing ftpserver.py.

Interestingly, if I try to run ftpserver from within it's directory in the following manner (not sure if this is relevant):

root@beaglebone1:/etc/init.d# ftpserver

It returns:

-sh: ftpserver: command not found

So I'm not certain why my script isn't running on startup.

For reference, ftpserver.py looks like this:

from pyftpdlib import ftpserver
authorizer = ftpserver.DummyAuthorizer()
authorizer.add_user("root", "12345", "/home/root", perm="elradfmw")
handler = ftpserver.FTPHandler
handler.authorizer = authorizer
address = ("", 21)
ftpd = ftpserver.FTPServer(address, handler)
ftpd.serve_forever(
Chris
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Try running it with ./ftpserver

Also, check if your script is configured to run in current runlevel - probably /etc/rc.conf and there DAEMONS or something like that.

Adrian
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