On 12-Mar-2000 Lane Lester wrote: > I keep trying to do various things at startup, and almost none of them work! > People tell me what to put in what files, but it doesn't have any effect! > > I installed 7.0 with automatic startup of X, and now there seems to be no way > to start at the console instead. > 1. Typing "linux 3" at the lilo prompt doesn't do anything other than > complain that it's not on the menu (I know that, I put "mx" and "mc" on the > menu... but they both go to X, too. It's 'linux init 3' > 2. Changing inittab from id:5:initdefault: to id:3:initdefault: doesn't do > it, either. Odd. > I want to run some programs at startup, but no one seems to be able to help > me do this. For example, I want to run xscreensaver, but putting the > following in either .Xsession or .xinitrc in my home directory has no effect: >#!/bin/sh > xscreensaver & > exec icewm > > I want to run ledcontrol before X starts, and someone suggested putting the > command "ledd -d" in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, but that doesn't seem to work > either. What's this program meant to do? tom > -- > Lane > ____ > Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA > Using Linux to get where I want to go... -- "No fun, no gain" Thomas 'tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) http://www.mandrakeuser.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
