===== Adding and removing autostart scripts ===== Put an autostart script into /etc/init.d, for example //startme//: #! /bin/bash Start the application here Then run the following command to setup the autostart in the different runlevels: update-rc.d startme defaults You can check existing entries with the following command: ls -l /etc/rc?.d/*startme To remove the autostart: update-rc.d [-n] [-f] startme remove -n: no action, just show what would happen. -f: force removal even if vmachine.sh still exists