Re: make system boot straight to browser connection
Brian writes:
> On Fri 09 Oct 2015 at 17:18:28 -0400, James Richardson wrote:
>
>> Brian writes:
>>
>> > On Fri 09 Oct 2015 at 15:58:55 -0400, James Richardson wrote:
>> >
>> >> Brian writes:
>> >>
>> >> > On Fri 09 Oct 2015 at 13:50:07 -0400, James Richardson wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Richard Owlett writes:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> > [resend, had not appeared in archives after 2 hours]
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > How to do an autologin? In a DE independent way?
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=autologin&apropos=1
>> >> >> > gave no relevant links.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > A Google search gave only decade old or DE related links.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > I currently use Mate, but exploring other desktops(avoiding Gnome
>> >> >> > 3!!!;}.
>> >> >> > I'd like something similar to autoexec.bat from DOS/CPM days.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I've used runit for such things successfully, most recently for starting
>> >> >> kodi at startup on my HTPC.
>> >> >
>> >> > apt-cache show runit has as part of its output:
>> >> >
>> >> > runit service supervision can run under sysv init or replace the init
>> >> > system completely. Complete init replacement requires some manual
>> >> > configuration described in the supplied documentation.
>> >> >
>> >> > So the standard systemd init system needs replacing to get autologin in
>> >> > a DE independent way? Technically you might be correct but are you
>> >> > serious? It doesn't seem very elegant.
>> >>
>> >> runit provides service supervision it can run under sysv init *OR*
>> >> replace the init system.
>> >
>> > Yes. You've repeated what I quoted from 'apt-cache show' without adding
>> > why changing one's init system to get a simple thing like autologin is
>> > at all beneficial to most users.
>> >
>> Runit does not require one change one's init system. That is why is
>> states it can run under sysv init ****OR**** replace the init system.
>>
>> Simply installing runit does not replace the init system.
>
> Correct. So how does simply installing it allow an autologin to X?
>
> As a matter of interest. From runit(8):
>
> DESCRIPTION
> runit must be run as Unix process no 1.
>
> root@jessie:~# runit
> - runit: fatal: must be run as process no 1.
Well, one has to configure it.
In /etc/inittab add a line like
SV:123456:respawn:/usr/sbin/runsvdir-start
then create a run script for firefox (.e.g /etc/sv/firefox/run)
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/xinit /usr/bin/firefox
then create a symlink fro /etc/sv/firefox to /etc/service
more info is at http://smarden.org/runit/.
--
James Richardson
http://jamestechnotes.com
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