Re: Delaying Autostart

In article <101itmk$2mr8t$1@dont-email.me>,
Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

Instead of waiting for some fixed interval, you could add a prior command
using wget or something to repeatedly try accessing that URL, say at 5
second intervals or whatever, until it becomes accessible, before allowing
the startup to proceed.

For inspiration, I made a script to 'etherwake' a device and wait for it
to get ready using wget in combination with the 'timeout' command. I run
'timeout 1 wget <url>' which returns an error if wget does not respond
in 1 second, or wget returns an error itself. I use this in a while
loop that repeats this until the wget succeeds:

    etherwake -D -i ${IFACE} ${MACADDR}

    while ! timeout 1 curl --noproxy \* "${URL}" &> /dev/null
    do
        echo -n .
        sleep 1
    done

The OP could replace the 'sleep 120' in the other script with this loop.
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