What if you boot into X directly (runlevel 5)? Will the command in rc.local
work then?
Maybe not. I wonder how to script a login session. Maybe then you could run
startx and then run your program.
-- Stephen
On Wednesday 27 June 2001 04:11 pm, Mike Rambo wrote:
> David Joham wrote:
> > You can always put in custom startup information in /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
> >
> > Would that solve your problem?
> >
> > David
>
> I've tried everything along that line that I can think of. I can't find
> anything that will work. Basically, an X session has to be started and
> logged in to accept connections as the correct user to start the
> Wine/Faircom combination. Only then will Wine actually start. I can get
> Wine to start automatically when I manually log into the GUI but I
> cannot start the X session (already logged in) automatically.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mike Rambo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 1:52 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [expert] How (or can) I
> >
> > make Wine start at boot time. I need to run a database server we
> > normally run as an NT service. This database server (Faircom - required
> > for some library automation software) runs as an NT service but will
> > also work pretty well running under Wine on a Linux server. I'd like to
> > have this start automagically at boot time so user intervention is not
> > required.
> >
> > The closest I've gotten so far is to use Xvnc but I haven't been able to
> > get it to work without some kind of intervention (when I check the app
> > from another machine using vncviewer it is always waiting for me to
> > click the mouse to place the app on the virtual screen). Is there a way
> > around this behavior?
> >
> > As an alternative, how does Mandrake 8 accomplish automatic logins as a
> > specific user and can the same be accomplished with Mdk 7.1 (which is
> > what this server runs)? If I could get the machine to log in
> > automatically as the user needed to run the database server I could have
> > the screensaver kick in a minute later with password protection enabled.
> >
> > --
> > Mike Rambo
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
