diff --git a/startopenerp/README.md b/startopenerp/README.md
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+# Automatically run script at boot time
+# Following are simple instructions
+# Make /etc/rc.d/rc.local executable, by using this command:
+  chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.local
+# Edit the file /etc/rc.local and to the bottom of it simply add the line pointing to your shell script:
+  /path/MyShScript.sh
+# And then to make it executable, run:
+  chmod +x /path/MyShScript.sh
+# DONE!
+
+
diff --git a/startopenerp/startopenerp.sh b/startopenerp/startopenerp.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Stop OpenERP service
+sudo service openerp stop
+# Start OpenERP service
+sudo su - openerp -c "cd /opt/bahmni-erp/ && nohup ./openerp-server --addons-path=/opt/bahmni-erp/bahmni-addons,/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/openerp-7.0_20130301_002301-py2.6.egg/openerp/addons &"
+echo "OpenERP started"
+
+