Re: custom startup
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On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 02:36:11PM -0400, Peter Osborne wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to setup a Debian system to startup X and then run my application
> on system startup and I cannot get it to work.
>
> I have a script called
>
> /etc/rc2.d/S95startx
>
> this script consists of:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> echo "Starting X"
> /usr/X11R6/bin/startx > /root/xlog
> echo "Done"
Ack! Don't run X as root!
Go grab gdm, xdm or kdm, and use that to start X on startup instead.
If this is just a home box and you live alone, kdm has options to log
a user in automatically.
But don't run X as root, avoid doing anything you can do as a normal
user as root.
- --
.''`. Baloo Ursidae <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org>
: :' : proud Debian admin and user
`. `'`
`- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system
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