On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:07:26 -0600 Robert Denier wrote: > This is probably easy, but I can't think of an obvious way to automatically > login as a user. From that point you need to start X and mythfrontend, but > that is probably easy as long as one can figure out how to execute a script > as a particular user. > > The overall idea is to have the system get to the point that you can use the > remote automatically after you turn it on. I'm using Gentoo Linux. This > shouldn't be that hard, but I just don't see an obvious starting point other > than maybe figuring out the init process from inittab or maybe something like > xdm that does autologins.
make a shell program that changes user and then executes the program you want. su changes user su - username -c script_to_start_mythtv will do what it suggests stick it in the /etc/conf.d/local.start make sure /etc/init.d/local runs on startup. rc-update add local default > > -Robert Denier > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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