[97273] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Auto-launch on login
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Carlson)
Mon Nov 2 10:42:26 1998
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 09:39:32 -0600 (CST)
From: Bill Carlson <wcarlson@kinzemfg.com>
To: Toby Herring <therring@syncroflo.com>
cc: Red Hat - List <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Toby Herring wrote:
> 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.
Try adding the command to start the menu to ~/.bashrc. Have you tried
setting the app as the shell? Just because it wasn't design as a shell
doesn't mean it won't work, though there may be security risks involved...
>
> (BTW, the menu is not a shell of it's own that could be set up as the users
> default shell. It's the main menu from an interpreted Basic software
> package that we have installed on the system.)
I assume cat is still present, cat <file> | more should let you see enough
to know what is going on.
Good Luck!
Bill Carlson | Opinions expressed are my own
KINZE Manufacturing, Inc. | not my employer's.
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