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- From: travis@mips.com (Mike Travis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Launch program at boot time??
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 20:14:51 GMT
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- Message-ID: <1hvkbrINNcsq@spim.mti.sgi.com>
- References: <C02z23.1os@iat.holonet.net> <u8rt1eo@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
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- In article <u8rt1eo@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
- >In <C02z23.1os@iat.holonet.net> cmumford@iat.holonet.net (Chris Mumford) writes:
- >
- >| Does anyone know how to launch a program at boot time. This would be
- >| valuable for a turn-key system where the power button is pressed and the
- >| system comes right up into the simulation.
- >
- >Create an account whose .xsession and/or .sgisgession
- >runs the programs you want with the resources you want,
- >and then setup the system to autologin as that 'user'
- >(via system manager, or just put the account name in
- >/etc/autologin). This won't work if the user 'logs out',
- >but it does work on bootup.
- >--
- >Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- >because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- > Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
-
- Another possibility is to launch the program from /etc/inittab. See
- init(1M) and inittab(4).
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