Hello, I'm not familiar with "White Dwarf Linux" specifically, but in general it is quite easy to set up a terminal to not require login (and I will assume that you are NOT talking about trying to go in over the network without authentication!). (I don't know if you are using busybox's init or not - I'll assume yes - the idea's the same regardless). In inittab, change one of the virtual terminal lines (for tty1 for example) from tty1::askfirst:/bin/login to tty1::askfirst:-/bin/sh that way a shell is just started rather than an authentication process.
The point I'm unclear of here, is why you don't want to use login for development purposes: I would think that, since the production device will have no input device, its irrelevant whether or not you log in during development. Hmm... are you really asking the best way to start an application at system startup without user intervention? In that case rc.local is certainly a valid place to start it, directly or indirectly. Does White Dwarf Linux use SysV-type initialization ? If so, you can just write a service script to start/stop/restart the application. That may simplify the shutdown process, but there are other ways around that, too. Good luck. George Israel Alvarez wrote: > > Hi!, > I'm developing one app. over White Dwarf Linux. for an embedded system. I > needed to find the way of loggin into the system without user and password > request because the final product will not have any input device. The > solution I have found is to modify the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file so it launches > my app. even before the system request for the prompt. At the moment it > works, but I'm not sure if it is the right way (actually, I think It's not > the right way). I guess I will find problems shooting down the system for > example. Could anyone give me his/her oppinion about this? If this is not the > right way, How can I skip the loggin request? (I don't have the Perl library > installed so I can't use the 'autologin' application for example. By the way, > because lack of room in the system I would prefer don't use any extra app. if > it is possible). > thanks -- ------------------------------ George Fouse, President Quantum Technology Associates System and Network Services ------------------------------ -- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the command "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the message body. For more information, see <http://waste.org/mail/linux-embedded>.
