Brad DerManouelian wrote: >On Jan 10, 2006, at 7:50 PM, John Biundo wrote: > > > >>Hi all. >> >>I've got mythtv starting up automatically upon boot (by running >>mythfrontend in user mythtv's .xsession). No problem there. >> >>But when my wife/kids exit from the top menu by mistake (one too many >>exit button presses) they're left at the befuddling command prompt. >> >>After futzing with inittab to try to get this working, and googling >>around along a bunch of wild goose chases, I'm throwing my hands up >>and >>beseeching the gurus how to do this. >> >>I'm running KDE. Don't want to give it up (unless I absolutely >>have to). >> >>Putting a line like: m7:2345:respawn:/bin/su - mythtv -c /usr/bin/ >>startx >>in my /etc/inittab doesn't work. When I test it, by exiting from >>mythtv, this method fails with a message about the user not being >>allowed to start the x server. Which puzzles me because user >>mythtv IS >>allowed to run startx, and the command line 'su -mythtv -c >>/usr/bin/startx' works fine when I'm logged in as root. >> >>What am I missing? How do other people handle this? >> >> To answer your question (though the other suggestions are useful to avoid accidental exits):
6:23:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --autologin mythtv tty6 In myth's .login: [ `tty` = '/dev/tty6' ] && exec /usr/bin/X11/startx /usr/bin/mythfrontend -v 255 2>&1 > ~/myth.log which doesn't start it up if you login to the account on another vt I find that if myth ever crashes or hangs (v. rare) then ctrl-alt-backspace kills X and the respawn restarts it. I don't run any window managers - don't seem to need them. YMMV. HTH David _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
