Autostart pip package changedetection.io

[deuko]

Hello!

I am running the package inside a LXC container (Debian 11), install and manual startup with the command provided in the example works flawlessly, I can also reach and configure the instance.

However I fail to autostart the application after a reboot.
I added the same command which I used to start it manually to my crontab:

@reboot changedetection.io -d /etc/changedetection -p 5000

I also see in the syslog that the cmd is executed successfully?
Jan 21 10:40:56 change CRON[121]: (root) CMD (changedetection.io -d /etc/changedetection -p 5000)

However the instance is not running, I can't reach it, no process is running and also when I execute the cmd manually again after a reboot it then actually starts (which means it was not running before as the port is not blocked)
So the cmd on reboot is not working, also tried to start it in background (&), no luck.

Can you please help me or provide a line in the example how to autostart it?

Thank you very much in advance.

[dgtlmoon]

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[dgtlmoon]

/etc is only for system configs, you really should not store data there

[deuko]

Ok thanks, I will change that.
Any idea how to autostart it?

[dgtlmoon]

that's outside the scope of this project, but i'm available for commercial support if you like - feel free to email

[deuko]

Ok I found a working solution for crontab:
@reboot /usr/bin/python3 /path/to/changedetection.py -d <dataDir> -p 5000

Full-qualifying python3 seems to be important here as stated here in this comment:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24518522/run-python-script-at-startup-in-ubuntu#comment37962158_24518522

@dgtlmoon Maybe you want to include it in your examples, I could open a pull-request if you want.