Tony: > 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? You can set a timed login, to login graphically if nothing else logs in first. I'd suggest something like a five second delay to make it easier for an admin to login and fix something else up, first, if they had to. There's, also, an automatic login, similar to the above but without the timed wait, beforehand. In Gnome, either can be configured from System menu / Administration sub menu / Login Screen menu item If you installed the graphical login configuration "gdmsetup" (you can "yum install gdmsetup" if you hadn't). You could just edit the configuration files that program configures for you, but I can't offer any advice about doing it that way. After that, you can configure your preferred application to run from the bash configuration scripts, or the "sessions" configurator: System menu / Preferences sub-menu / Personal sub-sub-menu / Sessions menu item Start the programs you want, then save the session. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ rm -rfd /*^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Huname -ipr 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
