I have a little node application on a server (node mailer) that I run by going to its source folder and executing npm start. I figured the best way to run this automatically would be to create a my_script.sh file and drop it in the init.d directory of my debian box. Inside the file (below the !#/bin/bash line), the code to execute is
'/opt/mycode/source/npm start'
I save the line to the .sh file and restarted the machine, but so far haven't got it to work. My question is: is this even how you start a script like this (using that command and an .sh file)? It does start normally when I do it manually (when I navigate to it and run npm start in the terminal). I included the single quotes around it because of the space between npm start. Also, if I want to verify that it worked, which process would I look for other than just pinging my smtp mailer? Finally, I know I need to run:
update-rc.d my_script.sh defaults
but I was also confused at to whether I had done this correctly either (is it just the name of the file that goes there or the file plus the extension)?
