Auto start odrive agent and auto mount on os boot (ubuntu)

Troubleshooting
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hi, can someone helpme to start automatically odrive synch agent server on my ubuntu 17 and mount automatically to local odrive folder?

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Hi @william.melatini,
Once you setup odrive with a mount and authenticate, you really just need to run the odrive agent (.odrive-agent/bin/odriveagent) on startup, and it will use the previous settings.

You would probably want to use systemd create a start-up process for odriveagent. There are tons of resources out there for creating a systemd service, so you should be able to find some basic information on creating a simple systemd service file and enabling it.

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thanks for the replay.

to automatic synchronization from cloud? i get synch from cloud lunching bash script via comand

4

Hi @william.melatini,
odrive will always automatically sync new/changed files up. To pull files down automatically you will need to tell odrive to do that periodically. A script running as a scheduled task can do that.

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hi, i try to use the ubuntu app “startup application”. i have add this comand on the new startup elment “nohup “$HOME/.odrive-agent/bin/odriveagent” > /dev/null 2>&1 &” (i try also “sudo nohup “$HOME/.odrive-agent/bin/odriveagent” > /dev/null 2>&1 &”) but not works. i think i missing something important concept.
p.s. the comand work if i past it on the terminal

i aslo create a file under .config/autostart/odrive.desktop with this line:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Odrive Agent
Exec=sudo nohup “$HOME/.odrive-agent/bin/odriveagent” > /dev/null 2>&1 &
Icon=
Comment=Avvio Odrive Agent
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true

but nothing

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Hi @william.melatini,
What if you put the command into a script and autostart that, instead? You can also remove nohup and the redirection to see what might be happening better: "$HOME/.odrive-agent/bin/odriveagent"

Also, sudo will have issues unless you have modified the sudoers file to allow sudoing without entering your password.

You might also have more luck with a systemd vs autostart.

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I can confirm (on Linux Mint 19, so basically ubuntu) the Startup Applications method works with a bash script that looks like:

#!/bin/bash
nohup “$HOME/.odrive-agent/bin/odriveagent” > /dev/null 2>&1 &

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