On Friday 28 Mar 2014 21:08:02 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:15:56 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > 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. > > I don't think it's down to the shell, sysresccd includes bash too AFAIR.
Yes, bash is present, but root (superuser) has /bin/zsh as its shell in /etc/passwd, so bash scripts aren't run on login. > It's more likely due to me giving your duff information, the file is > autorun not .autorun. I did manage to drop the dot :-) --->8 > Aha, just found the proper documentation for it > http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_Run_your_own_scripts_with_autorun That looks interesting - thanks. First though I think I'll pursue getting my aliases, and unaliases, into zsh startup. Or is it simple to change root's login shell? It seems unlikely that simply editing /etc/passwd would do it. -- Regards Peter
