On Monday 01 April 2002 6:47 am, you wrote: > On Monday 01 April 2002 04:05, Guilherme Cirne wrote: > > Hi, > > > > How do I start the LAN Information Server (LISa) automatically at boot > > time. If I run lisa --kde2 as root, everything works fine. I tried adding > > the following lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.local: > > > > if [ -x /usr/bin/lisa ]; then > > echo "Starting LISa daemon..." > > /usr/bin/lisa --kde2 > > fi > > > > but this doesn't work. I don't know where to look for possible error > > messages, but I believe that the problem has something to do with it not > > being run as root or not recognising the --kde2 option and thus not > > finding the correct config file. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > TIA, > > I think at 8.2 the options for LISa changed. I'm not sure if the --kde2 > switch is there any more. > In any case you can start LISa with > lisa -c path_to_config_file > > The default path to the config file should be > /root/.kde/share/config/lisarc which is where KDE Control Centre will put > it if you run kcontrol as root. > > derek
I don't think that is the problem. I have tried the -c option and it doesn't work. What I want to know is if any program run from /etc/rc.d/rc.local will be run with root privileges. So I guess my question is: how do I run a program, with root privileges, during system startup? -- Guilherme Cirne [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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