Re: rc.local

[Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>]

On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 03:11:22AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> I think this is a good idea.  I recently set up a Debian potato system
> to be a web terminal, thus I had to run a startx on boot.  However,
> /etc/init.d/rmnologin is by default run at 99, which is bad if I want
> to have stuff happen *after* all other initalization.  
> 
> My solution was to create /etc/init.d/local:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> run-parts /etc/rc.local
> 
> and do:
> update-rc.d -f rmnologin remove
> update-rc.d rmnologin start 98 2 3 4 5 .
> update-rc.d local start 99 2 3 4 5 .
> 
> I just plopped my startx script into /etc/rc.local.

why not just use xdm or wdm and edit the config so that the login window
displays "login as guest with password guest"?

craig

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craig sanders