The very first hit for me when searching for the terms below on duckduckgo more than likely has the information you need since it has information for Ubuntu and also information for systems using init or systemd.
start htop on tty on boot As with most things there are more than one way to do this. On Sun, 2020-08-30 at 22:31 -0500, Chuck Hast wrote: > Well went against the wall on that one. No inittab... Shows > you how much I have looked there lately. > > Not sure now where to do the work on the console, has > to be in there. > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 9:43 PM Chuck Hast <[email protected]> wrote: > > > OK, I will go through all of it, has been a long time, did that > > sort of thing when we set up amateur radio packet switches, > > had a screen that brought up the switch info. That has been > > a LOT of years ago. moved to SW WA in 2012, I think I did > > the last packet radio sw setup back 3-4 years before that. > > > > Yes, it is Ubuntu server and it is systemd... I will look for the > > config file. > > > > > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 2:47 PM King Beowulf <[email protected] > > > > > wrote: > > > > > On 8/30/20 8:10 AM, Chuck Hast wrote: > > > > That finished nailing it. I am going to work on it this > > > > afternoon, but > > > > that data brought it all back. Funny, my searches all brought > > > > up > > > > doing this in a terminal screen in the GUI, command line only > > > > gets > > > > no respect... > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 3:20 AM Tom <[email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Fri, 28 Aug 2020 18:41:20 -0500 > > > > > Chuck Hast <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > There that brought a bunch of stuff back (old sux) and I > > > > > > started seeing light flashes, as I knew I had done it in > > > > > > the > > > > > > past but just could not remember how. > > > > > > > > > > > > This is a server box so there is no X on it. I will take a > > > > > > look at screen/tmux, and see how that does. Thank you > > > > > > very much. > > > > > > > > > > > Hi there. Just place where you see /sbin/agetty in > > > > > /etc/inittab with > > > > > the path to the program you want to launch instead. like > > > > > /usr/bin/top > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Be aware you will need more that just replacing agetty command in > > > inittab. If you do not and stdout and stdin redirects, you will > > > not > > > have keyboard functionality. See my original post to this thread. > > > > > > -Ed > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > > > PLUG mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > > > -- > > > > Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- > > I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. > > Ph 4:13 KJV > > Todo lo puedo en Cristo que me fortalece. > > Fil 4:13 RVR1960 > > > > _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
