Thank you guys, that did it. every other search sent me down paths to deal with the GUI type terminal... Now I have HTOP but it is on tty7 where I wanted it in the first place. Just swapped the 1 for a 7 and off it went.
On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 8:10 AM David Bridges <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- 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
