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Hello,
i need to run some system commands ( configurating drivers and similar stuff ) at startup and thought about doing so by including them into the .launch script of my project.
Is this a good idea, is there a simple way to run shell commands ( with root privileges ) from a launch script? Or if not, is there maybe a simple node that i can call to execute shell commands.
In principle you can put your commands in any shell script, put it in a ROS package and rosrun that or call it via roslaunch.
One thing that might prevent this from being usable is that you don't have a guarantee that your commands are executed before any others (besides executing different launch files).
By "at startup", you mean once on system boot? In that case, I would use another method (such as /etc/init.d scripts), especially if you need to run as root.
Asked: 2012-05-11 01:52:51 -0600
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Last updated: May 11 '12
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Running the command from a shell script would be nice, but how do i call that script via roslaunch? That was what i was looking for in the beginning, reading [http://ros.org/wiki/roslaunch/XML].