Autostarting apps

Apps and Virtualization
1

How do you make apps autostart upon TrueNAS reboot? I got a bunch of apps that I have to start manually every time I reboot TrueNAS, and it’s getting frustrating. What is the setting that tells them to autostart? I am guessing that it must be some environment variable or something, such as KEEP_APP_RUNNING or something like that.

2

what is the restart policy of the container?
if are build as catalogue app, this commando should work

docker inspect **containername** --format='{{json .HostConfig.RestartPolicy}}' | jq

ix container are named like ix-container-container-1, in any case with docker ps you can see exactly the name.

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Thanks. Here’s what I get for czkawka:

admin@nas1:~$ sudo docker inspect ix-czkawka-czkawka-1 --format='{{json .HostConfig.RestartPolicy}}' | jq
{
  "Name": "no",
  "MaximumRetryCount": 0
}

I take it that means that the restart policy is no, right? How do I make it yes though?

Here’s a chunk of what the full inspect says:

admin@nas1:~$ sudo docker inspect ix-czkawka-czkawka-1
[
    {
        "Id": "e37a481b6515b8eca5b4b0ca491697998ab74bb5b7ad7e480134a7b44ce0f74e",
        "Created": "2025-03-06T20:06:18.68847054Z",
        "Path": "/init",
        "Args": [],
        "State": {
            "Status": "running",
            "Running": true,
            "Paused": false,
            "Restarting": false,
            "OOMKilled": false,
            "Dead": false,
            "Pid": 13812,
            "ExitCode": 0,
            "Error": "",
            "StartedAt": "2025-03-06T20:06:26.689348766Z",
            "FinishedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z"
4

Alright, nevermind, I found out that the apps that did not autostart had the Restart Policy set to No. And this is, indeed, exposed to the user on the Edit screen(!). Interestingly, apps that did autostart do not have this parameter exposed.

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