* Matthew Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-03 20:01]: > just wondering about how one would go about starting an application on a > local console. for instance something like mysqlclient or mutella etc..... so > that you could access it by hitting ctrl-alt-f9 for instance (no login > prompt, instead application prompt). > > i would assume that this would be done through inittab, but don't know > exactly how to link it to the console.....
You could do it quite easily using getty and just telling it to run a different login program and not ask for a username. Add something like this to /etc/inittab: 8:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty8 -n -l /usr/bin/emacs The -n tells it not to prompt for a login name, the -l tells it which program to run in place of /bin/login. You might want to run a script to set up the environment first, but this would do the basic job. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
