TeamViewer does not start automatically, how do I make sure it does?
TeamViewer provides a script called teamviewerd.sysv
available in /opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/script
. Here's an excerpt:
#!/bin/bash
#
# /etc/init.d/teamviewerd
#
# chkconfig: 2345 95 05
# description: daemon for TeamViewer
#
# processname: teamviewerd
# config: /etc/teamviewer/global.conf
# pidfile: /var/run/teamviewerd.pid
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: teamviewerd
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Required-Start: $all
# Required-Stop: $local_fs $network $named
# Short-Description: TeamViewer remote control daemon
# Description: TeamViewer remote control daemon
### END INIT INFO
All you need to do is make sure this script runs on startup. Making sure of this is relatively simple, just copy it to /etc/init.d
like so:
cd /opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/script
sudo cp teamviewerd.sysv /etc/init.d/
Don't forget to make the script non-writable to anyone but the owner!
sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/teamviewerd.sysv
Then run
sudo update-rc.d teamviewerd.sysv defaults
The service will now start automatically with each boot. If you don't feel like rebooting, you can start the service manually with:
sudo service teamviewerd.sysv start
2019 EDIT: This answer was written in 2013. Since then, systemd
has arrived in force and is normally used for constructing services that start upon boot. For instructions on how to achieve this in systemd
instead, please see this question: How do I run a single command at startup using systemd?