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Not really a ROS-related question, but you likely want to look into cron (assuming *nix since you speak of rc.local) with @reboot, for example as seen in this article.

There are plenty of questions about the details of what else you need to do though: try googling "ros node at startup site:answers.ros.org" and see what's applicable to ROS2 as well.

Not really a ROS-related question, but you likely want to look into cron (assuming *nix since you speak of rc.local) with @reboot, for example as seen in this article.

There are plenty of questions about the details of what else you need to do though: try googling "ros node at startup site:answers.ros.org" and see what's applicable to ROS2 as well.

EDIT: best answer for ROS1 even though I couldn't find a ROS2 equivalen of the robot_upstart package.

Not really a ROS-related question, but you likely want to look into cron (assuming *nix since you speak of rc.local) with @reboot, for example as seen in this article.

There are plenty of questions about the details of what else you need to do though: try googling "ros node at startup site:answers.ros.org" and see what's applicable to ROS2 as well.

EDIT: best answer for ROS1 even though I couldn't find a ROS2 equivalen equivalent of the robot_upstart package.