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Run a program on Ubuntu at startup - A cron job setup (Tested on Ubuntu 19.10)
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You can use the "crontab -e" command to add a program to the cron job scheduler,

so that it will launch it at startup, even if there is no GUI installed (useful for Ubuntu servers).

First config the cronejob

~$crontab -e

Select the text editor (I choosed NANO by hitting 1) Next, scroll to the bottom of the file and add the following line.

@reboot /PATH/TO/EXECUTABLE/FILE

Example if you wanna run firefox add line like this "@reboot firefox". All you really have to remember here is ‘@reboot’. if you have a argumets to run add it after the executable path like this

@reboot firefox -O

Press "Ctrl + O" and hit Enter to save if you'r using Nano, and then "Ctrl + X" to exit. That’s it! Restart the system and see how it's works.

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