Need shellscript to start wpa_supplicant on boot

Hi!
How do I make a script that starts wpa_supplicant, dhcpcd and maybe a shellscrpt to enable proxy for one specific network in the background in /etc/rc.d/*? I felt that netcfg did not work that good, because it has not that many options to define.

I'm sorry, but I don't know how to log the errors, if I don't stop the ever scrolling screen with ctrl+c, it will go on and on.
The permissions are fine, since the server is located in the home folder of the user. And if I run /usr/bin/screen -dmS minecraft /usr/bin/java -jar -Xms1024M -Xmx2048M /home/inchw0rm/minecraft_server.1.7.4.jar from terminal as a normal user, the server also starts OK.
I also found this thread, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=155991 but it seems to me very unclear how this user modified the unit to get it working.
Last edited by Inchw0rm (2014-02-12 11:31:12)

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Last edited by Ipozya (2012-11-15 11:29:05)

foppe wrote:
Check the output from
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Dhclient did not work automatically on boot either.
Others seem to have experienced similar issues but I don't see any real solutions in any of these posts, despite being marked as solved. For example, adding "-t 120" to the dhcpcd start line in /usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected] did not work for me.
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