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Hi All

I am sorry, this is slightly off topic.

Could anyone point me in the direction of how to start SickBeard and CouchPotato at start.

I am running Ubuntu 13.04, and although I rarely turn off my media centre, I would like to be able to autostart these when xbmc starts, as it's a pain leaving another machine on just to run the python command.

Thanks for any help

You should have an "init.ubuntu" file in your sickbeard folder

Code:
cp init.ubuntu /etc/init.d/sickbeard

then

Code:
sudo update-rc.d sickbeard defaults

create the sickbeard config file

Code:
nano /etc/default/sickbeard

Mine looks like this, you probably need to change some stuff to fit your configuration, if you check init.ubuntu you'll see what kind of arguments you can put in there.

Code:
SB_USER=xbmc

SB_HOME=/home/xbmc/.sickbeard/

SB_DATA=/home/xbmc/.sickbeard/

SB_OPTS=--config=/home/xbmc/.sickbeard/config.ini

That should be it, next time sickbeard should autostart. Couchpotato is pretty similar, you should find the init file in couchdir/init

edit: by the way you can then also start and stop sickbeard with:

Code:
sudo service sickbeard start/stop/restart

diggadave

ursli