Re: automatic boot up and login - VNC related

[Paul <paul.corner-at-tesco.net>]

Hi Dan

I'll answer the second question first - To change the boot up level, edit 
/etc/inittab and look for a line :-

id:5:initdefault:

Change it to a 3 instead of 5, and next time you reboot, you'll be in a text 
mode.

When you talk about running a program at login - Do you mean after a user has 
logged on or at boot up time ?
In the first case, just add the command that you want to run at the end of 
the $HOME/.bash_profile
For the latter case, a number of methods can be used - One is to add the 
commands to one of the files in /etc/rc.d - Usually the rc.local is the one 
to use. A methode that I use is to add a couple of bash scripts to /etc/rc3.d 
called S99myscript and K99myscript. Files starting with an S are for kicking 
off the application, and K99 will terminate it in a controlled manner (handy 
for loadable modules). Just noticed an S99local that can be used for running 
various commands....
The advantage of putting scripts in the /etc/rcX.d directories is you can 
control which run level will use them - rc.local is a catch all script, so if 
it does something fatal, you have no way back.

If you want some notes on running an X app from the boot up scripts, I can 
email my notes later on.

BTW plain text is very easy to import into a LyX document.


Regards, Paul.



On Sunday 10 Mar 2002 4:22 pm, Dan Falck wrote:
> I set up VNC again yesterday with the 2.12 BDI system.  As soon as I
> figure out how to run Lyx, I will send Ray a document on how I did it.
> My question today is:  How can one set up the EMC BDI system to log in
> automatically and launch a program right after it logs in?  It has
> something to do with rc.d or an rc file somewher, but I am a weekend
> warrior when it comes to this and haven't figured it out yet.
> Also, I have forgotten how to set up to NOT  boot into  X.  When I boot
> up now, I type in 'linux 3' at the lilo prompt. This gets me there
> temporarily.