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If the Rocrail Server runs on a dedicated computer like the Raspberry Pi, it would be helpful if the Server starts automatically after every reboot in user context.
There are several ways to establish this, but the crontab solution is very easy to implement.

The provided ~/Rocrail/startrocrail.sh can also be used instead of writing your own.
This provided version supports also functions of the Server Monitor.

Create a start script, startrocrail.sh in the home directory of user pi by opening an editor like vi startrocrail.sh:

#!/bin/sh
cd /home/pi/Rocrail
/home/pi/Rocrail/bin/rocrail -l /home/pi/Rocrail/bin

Make the script executable:

chmod +x startrocrail.sh

To automatically shutdown the computer after the Rocrail Server did stop, add the following line to the startrocrail.sh script:

if [ $? -eq 70 ]
then
  echo raspberry | sudo -S halt -p
fi

The echo statement is followed by the password of the user. In this case its "raspberry", which is the default password of the user pi under Raspbian.

Add the following line at the end of the crontab list of user pi with the command crontab -e:

@reboot /home/pi/startrocrail.sh

Or directly on the command line:

(crontab -l ; echo "@reboot /home/pi/startrocrail.sh")| crontab -

Check the crontab:

crontab -l

Output:

# For more information see the manual pages of crontab(5) and cron(8)
# 
# m h  dom mon dow   command
@reboot /home/pi/startrocrail.sh

• Shutdown Rocrail and exit

• System: Shutdown server

• System: Shutdown server.
  

• Shutdown

killall rocrail

#!/bin/sh
WS=$1
PASSWORD=$2
cd
if [ !  $1 ]; then
  cd ~/Rocrail/default
else 
  cd ~/Rocrail/$WS
fi
~/Rocrail/bin/rocrail -l ~/Rocrail/bin
if [ $? -eq 70 ]
then
  echo $PASSWORD | sudo -S halt -p
fi