Re: make system boot straight to browser connection
On Mon 12 Oct 2015 at 09:57:54 -0400, James Richardson wrote:
> Brian writes:
>
> > On Fri 09 Oct 2015 at 17:18:28 -0400, James Richardson wrote:
> >
> >> 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/.
Thank you for the detail. I'm sure it works under sysvinit but systemd
doesn't use /etc/inittab.
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