Re: How to auto start Firestarter?

[Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>]

lmyho <lm_yho@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have firestarter installed.  However it doesn't automatically  start at system
> boot until I manually start it as root after login as reguler user.  
> 
> Following the instruction in FAQ, I modified the sudoers file, and added this line
> (for regular user jack) into it:
> jack ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/firestarter, and then added the line: sudo firestarter
> --start-hidden  into the GNOME Preferences->Sessions->Startup Programs. 
> 
> But it didn't work, the firestarter still doesn't load when the system boot and jack
> logedin.
> 
> Then I changed the line in sudoers to: jack ALL=NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/firestarter
> start, and changed the line in GNOME Preferences->Sessions->Startup Programs to:
> sudo /etc/init.d/firestarter start, too.  
> 
> But the firestarter still doesn't auto start at the system boot!
> 
> How can I make it auto start at system boot, or the start of GNOME? 
> What have I done wrong? 
> 
> I have GNOME and KDE installed, but the desktop manager is gdm.
> 
> Any advice and comment are highly appreciated!
> 
> Regards,
> leo
> 
> Than

I have firestarter installed, but don't remember doing anything special
to make it start automatically. Two questions:

1. What release are you using? (stable|testing|unstable)
2. How do you tell it's not started?

Regards
Andrei
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