As a matter of fact... Cron is very flexible. I use it to start seti at boot
time (well, kind of boot-time). You can set cron to execute a command every
minute or every 5 minutes, or whatever... If the program does not protect
against running multiple instances at once (like seti does), just write a script
that checks if the program is running, and starts it if it isn't. That's not too
hard.
Anyway, I don't really see the difference between starting something at
boot-time, or a few minutes after boot-time.
And the crontab-option is far more elegant too, than meddling with rc.local
(although somebody else will probably have a different opinion).
On Mar 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> "Sang Y. Yum" a écrit :
> >
> > > | Question
> > > | --------
> > > | Is it possible so that after boot, it logs on
> > > itself as some user (not root!)
> > > | then goes into X and KDE then starts the
> > > application programs running without
> > > | someone having to log it in with a username and
> > > password.
> > > |
> >
> > If the application to be executed without user
> > intervention is text-based, not X application, you
> > could achieve something similar with crontab. Do "man
> > crontab".
>
> No. Crontab is to execute programs on a fix regular timing,
> i.e. every day at 4 A.M., so you can sleep ;-)
>
> To execute some program on boot, do :
> su - user -c 'program'
> man su
> Add this line in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
> Yann
>
>
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