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HOWTO easily add Serviio as a start service in Mint Linux

For those who do not want to install Serviio to /usr and like to keep things clean and easy to use it is possible with Mint Linux to add serviio to the Menu or easily have it also work as a startup program. The Mint Control Centre does the job very nicely without having to create a script or run sudo to add a program from /usr as a start service.

start service.

The caveat is that only the user profile that creates the Serviio startup will start Serviio at login. Which if you think about it is not a bad thing at all. That way you do not have to start serviio at a lower run level, and any of your login profiles can be set to do different things with different Serviio installs. It is entirely possible to install different instances of Serviio to different user login /home directories This is the beauty of linux….you can customize the way things are done to the nines!

With Mint it is a snap to right click on the menu and edit your “start menu” (in windows speak)…you can even add links to scripts that start multiple programs or multiple instances of the same program. With scripts it is possible, for instance to start vlc nox to record audio or video streams from many different sources. How to do all this is beyond the scope of this article but I strongly encourage you to learn simple bash scripting. It opens up Linux like a fine wine only without breaking Windows LOL

However if all you want to do is start Serviio when you log in as a specific user and not when the computer boots or other users log in then here is exactly how easy it is to accomplish with Mint Linux

Mint Control

Remember though not to set the browse to the serviio-console.sh …if you do you will get a nasty little “where's Waldo” message. If you do the only way to have this work is with a startup script that you create that will launch serviio.sh first then the console after a wait call. You can easily create scripts to launch multiple programs in a timed sequence as a service in Linux. But it makes more sense to keep Serviio in the background as a service then adjust its settings only when necessary.

playground/playground.1323254821.txt.gz · Last modified: 2011/12/07 10:47 by eric