Reply To: Plex

[dpreviti]

Write up to setup plex to start on boot.

To run plex automatically at start put the following in /etc/init.d/plex
pay attention to change the “path_to_plex” & “USERNAME” to the correct values for your setup!

     #!/bin/sh
     ### BEGIN INIT INFO
     # Provides:          plexmediaserver
     # Required-Start:    $remote_fs $syslog $networking
     # Required-Stop:
     # Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
     # Default-Stop:      0 1 6
     # Short-Description: Plex Media Server
     # Description:       Plex Media Server for Linux,
     #                    More information at http://www.plexapp.com
     #                    Many thanks to the great PlexApp team for their wonderfull job !
     # Author:            Cedric Quillevere / origin@killy.net
     # Rewamped           Christian Svedin / christian.svedin@gmail.com
     # Version:           1.2
     ### END INIT INFO
     # Read configuration variable file if it is present
     [ -r /etc/default/plexmediaserver ] && . /etc/default/plexmediaserver

     test -f "/path_to_plex/start.sh" || exit 0

 plex_running=<code>ps ax | grep &quot;Plex Media Server&quot; | awk '{ print $1 }' | wc -l</code>

     case "$1" in
         start)
          if [ "$plex_running" -gt 1 ]; then
                echo "Plex already running..."
                exit 0
          fi
         echo -n "Starting Plex Media Server: "
         #su -l $PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_USER -c "/usr/sbin/start_pms &" >/dev/null 2>&1
         su -l USERNAME -c 'path_to_plex/start.sh &' >/dev/null 2>&1
         sleep 1
         echo "done"
         ;;
         stop)
         if [ "$plex_running" -eq 1 ]; then
                echo "Plex Media Server is not running (no process found)..."
                exit 0
         fi
         echo -n "Killing Plex Media Server: "
         # Trying to kill the Plex Media Server itself but also the Plug-ins
         ps ax | grep "Plex Media Server" | awk '{ print $1 }' | xargs kill -9 >/dev/null 2>&1
         ps ax | grep "Plex DLNA Server" | awk '{ print $1 }' | xargs kill -9 >/dev/null 2>&1
         sleep 1
         echo "done"
         ;;
         restart)
         sh $0 stop
         sh $0 start
         ;;
         status)
         if [ "$plex_running" -gt 1 ]; then
                echo "Plex Media Server process running."
         else
                echo "It seems that Plex Media Server isn't running (no process found)."
         fi
         ;;
         *)
         echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
         exit 1
         ;;
     esac

     exit 0

then run

sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/plex
sudo chown root:root /etc/init.d/plex

put in startup shortcuts & start the service

sudo update-rc.d plex defaults
sudo /etc/init.d/plex start