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Re: Auto-launch on login
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\))
Mon Nov 2 10:41:15 1998
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 15:41:16 +0000
From: "Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)" <argathin@iname.com>
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Toby Herring writes:
> OK, here's another obvious "newbie" question.
>
> I have several users on my system (application server) that have no
> interaction with Linux itself (SCO Unix, currently) and would prefer NOT to
> have to interact with the little $ prompt. The old SCO system is currently
> set up to auto-launch our primary application menuing system as soon as the
> user logs into the shell.
>
> How do I do this in Linux? (I can't even explore the setup in SCO, because
> the !#$!@# that set up the old SCO box didn't bother to install any text
> editor that I've been able to find.) I'm assuming it's a setting in the
> .profile, but I can't find any specific references that state exactly what
> command or line entry would be required to launch the menu.
I'd think it's very likely that it is part of .profile or similar (assuming
that the underlying shell is bash or sh). As for the SCO setup - even
without editor you should be able to look at those files. I presume that you
have access to an ls command? To look at the contents of a file, you can try
cat <file>, more <file>, less <file>, grep .\* <file> and quite possibly
some tricks with awk or sed. Hopefully, at least one of these utilities
exists on that box. Of course, if you have direct login access to that box,
you should be able to use an editor/utility on the Linux box.
HTH,
Thomas
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