On Saturday 22 Mar 2014 19:37:35 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 13:57:22 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I've installed that old favourite SysRescCD on a pen drive, following a > > method I found on the Web to include a persistent file-system with all > > the extras I wanted in, e.g., /usr/local/bin. > > > > It works well, except that I haven't found yet where to put all my > > aliases to have them sourced at (auto) log-in. > > There is a file that is executed by default at login, I think it > is .autorun. I remember having to add an option to ignore it on the > LXFDVDs because we use .autorun on those to launch a browser.
I had a poke around and didn't get anywhere with .autorun, but eventually I found that SysRescCD uses zsh, not bash. It hadn't occurred to me until then to consider the shell. So that's why the auto-login function wasn't behaving the way I expected. Thanks again Neil. -- Regards Peter
