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    <p>I have a python daemon process that gets started via rc.local. This same script, with the same permissions, is installed on a few other Ubuntu boxes I have. It runs without trouble on those installations. That is, after restarting the box, the daemon process is running.</p> <p>With this particular installation though, the daemon process is not running by the time I log in and check for the existence of the process. The rc.local files between systems are identical (or at least close enough):</p> <pre><code>localaccount@sosms:~$ cat /etc/rc.local #!/bin/sh -e # # rc.local # # This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel. # Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other # value on error. # # In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution # bits. # # By default this script does nothing. python /var/www/myDaemon/Main.py &gt; /var/log/somelog.txt exit 0 </code></pre> <p>The permissions are:</p> <pre><code>localaccount@sosms:~$ ls -la /etc/rc.local -rwxr-xr-x 1 localaccount localaccount 370 Jun 3 11:04 rc.local </code></pre> <p>I tested if the rc.local process is getting executed by using this test rc.local:</p> <pre><code>localaccount@sosms:/var/log/sosmsd$ cat /etc/rc.local #!/bin/sh -e # # rc.local # # This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel. # Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other # value on error. # # In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution # bits. # # By default this script does nothing. echo "test" &gt; /home/localaccount/test1 /usr/bin/python /var/www/sosms/sosmsd/Main.py &gt; /var/log/sosmsd/log/log echo "test" &gt; /home/localaccount/test2 exit 0 localaccount@sosms:/var/log/sosmsd$ </code></pre> <p>And only the first test file (test1) gets created after restarting the box. I'm guessing it means that the python line is causing some kind of issue, but I get no output in /var/log/sosmsd/log/log:</p> <pre><code>localaccount@sosms:~$ ls test1 </code></pre> <p><strong>Update:</strong></p> <p>I then followed larsks' advice and determined that I was getting this error from launching the python script:</p> <pre><code>mysql_exceptions.OperationalError: (2002, "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)") </code></pre> <p>Does this mean that rc.local is being executed before MySQL has had a chance to be initialized? Where do I go from here?</p>
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