"Sang Y. Yum" a �crit :
>
> > | 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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