How to start a *.sh file at bootup?

[Egregius]

Add it to cron.
sudo crontab -e
@reboot /path/to/script.sh

[jannl]

Correct

[ben53252642]

An alternative method is to make an init.d script that runs your script on startup:

nano /etc/init.d/NAMEOFSCRIPT

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#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: startscripts
# Required-Start: $network
# Required-Stop: $network
# Default-Start: 2 3 5
# Default-Stop:
# Description: Starts the script
### END INIT INFO

case "$1" in
'start')
        sudo /root/scripts/myscript.sh
        ;;
'stop')
        ;;
*)
        echo "Usage: $0 { start | stop }"
        ;;
esac
exit 0

Then run these commands:
chmod 755 NAMEOFSCRIPT
update-rc.d NAMEOFSCRIPT defaults

Make sure the command you want the script to run works from the terminal:
eg: sudo /root/scripts/myscript.sh

Some systems might not need the sudo, otherwise to install it: apt-get install sudo

[Egregius]

Continuing on this init.d script:
Do you know how to run a script at shutdown and reboot?
I need to run a script before domoticz and apache are stopped. Already tried with a init.d script but no luck so far.

[Egregius]

the script is executable? Also for the root user?
Did you try with chmod 755?

[waaren]

what is the output of the command sudo crontab -l ?

Could be that cron is already starting your script before all dependencies are fulfilled. A quick (and dirty) work-around for that is to
change the line into:

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@reboot sleep 60 && /home/pi/domoticz/nefitserver.sh

[waaren]

what is the output of the command sudo crontab -l ?