ERROR on service octave-daemon start. Ubuntu 12.04, octave-daemon v1.0.1 unzipped and successfully installed.

[eykiriku]

When I am starting the service from the terminal with:

service octave-daemon start

the errors I am facing are

/etc/init.d/octave-daemon: line 14: /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: No such file or directory Starting GNU Octave daemon (octave-daemon): /etc/init.d/octave-daemon: line 29: daemon: command not found

The first error occurring at line 14 is related to the call " source /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions ". Such directory has not been created during the installation.

[Gutza]

Yes, that is caused by the fact that we only ever tested and used octave-daemon on RH flavors; Ubuntu is indeed likely to use a different logic for its init scripts. At any rate, it should be reasonably easy to start the daemon manually; as you can see in /etc/init.d/octave-daemon it's not really doing all that much anyway (it basically just runs this: nohup octave-daemon -d -c /etc/octave-daemon.conf &).