tony.chamberlain@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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? At least in KDE there is a way (in Control Centre=>System Administration) to automatically login in as a specified user without giving a password. (I use this.) I think it is easy enough to ensure that a given program runs on login. But maybe I misunderstood the question. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
