On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 12:57 +0000, tony.chamberlain@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi > > Right now after our linux system is booted, the customer has to login > and then run > a program (standard linux procedure). > > They were asking me whether there was some way to automatically during > boot have the system > login and run a program? I know bash_profile will take care of part > of that, but the customer > would still have to log in. Any ideas? Probably with grub.conf? > Tony Simple: As root: Change initdefault (int /etc/inittab) to 3. (No X). Then edit rc.local and add "su -c 'xinit'" Now, as user X, create a new file /home/X/.xinitrc and add something like that. # You need a simple Window manager. MWM in this case. mwm & # Client application. client_software & # Add a screen saver just in-case. xscreensaver & - Gilboa
