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Start Jupyter Notebook at Boot Raspbian/BerryConda3

Good morning!

I have installed raspbian and berryconda on a pi3.

I'm failing miserably at getting the jupyter notebook server to run at boot.

Here is some info that might help:
Here is the bottom of my rc.local:
# --------------------------------------------------------------------
# My Configuration
#---------------------------------------------------------------------
# Start Jupyter Server at boot
/home/pi/berryconda3/bin/jupyter-notebook
exit 0

Here is what I get when I type "which jupyter":
/home/pi/berryconda3/bin/jupyter

Here's my path:
/home/pi/berryconda3/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games

And finally if I type "jupyter-notebook" from an ssh session as user pi - it starts the jupyter notebook server w/o issue

Thanks in advance for any help. This is driving me nutz! :D

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gelonida

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ttist25

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Thanks for the response gelonida and sorry for the delay in my response.

The jupyer notebook command actually starts a "notebook server" that can then be accessed from a web browser. My goal was to have a headless PI sitting over on the shelf that I could access from any computer on my network. I thought it would be a great use of a PI3 that was sitting in my desk drawer doing nothing (it remains to be seen whether it's actually good in practice :D).

Anyway, I managed to get this working after talking to my son. Here is his solution:

1. Create a script "/home/pi/startup.sh" with the following lines:

# shell script to set path and run jupyter notebook server at boot
export PATH="$PATH:/home/pi/berryconda3/bin/"
jupyter notebook

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2. Add the following to /etc/rc.local right above exit 0:

# Start Jupyter Notebook Server at boot
su pi -c 'bash /home/pi/startup.sh'

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So far this seems to be working great. If the power goes out, no worries, the notebook server starts up all on its own and I can browse to the PI and access the notebooks I've created. Again, thanks for the help!

gelonida

Yep using su to start a process as another user is the right thing to do. Creating an intermediate script in order to keep /etc/rc.local is also a good idea.

Well if you ever want to autostart an application on a pi with a screen and desktop you have some pointers.

Happy notebooking.