# Starting Node-RED on Boot up on Raspberry Pi

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**Created:** [5 May 2021 10:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/starting-node-red-on-boot-up-on-raspberry-pi/45208 "2021-05-05T10:59:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [5 May 2021 12:32 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/starting-node-red-on-boot-up-on-raspberry-pi/45208/4 "2021-05-05T12:32:35Z")

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For the future please copy/paste text rather than screenshots where possible. Use the method described [here](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-share-code-or-flow-json/506) when pasting it in.

The log was rotated at 11:12 so will have to look in the previous log file for the start of the boot. The previous one is called /var/log/syslog.1  
Look for lines like  
`May 5 13:17:23 pi kernel: [00012.505925] .........`  
where the time in square brackets is the number of seconds since booting, so that line means that the kernel started up at 13:17:10. It takes a few seconds to get the point of starting the kernel so the power up will have been a few seconds before that.

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