niroperera

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hi everyone...
I'm very new to linux areana...and now experiencing..it.

so i wanted tryout autorun cd which open index.html when insert cd without user have to mount.it.

i found code from http://research.silmaril.ie/autoruncd/

and..code was this..
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#! /bin/sh

# autorun binary for Linux CDs. Put this file on the CD in the root
# directory. It will execute automatically when the CD is inserted.
# It looks for a browser and runs it on index.html or similar.

# Copyleft 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Silmaril Consultants
# Terms of the GNU General Public License apply.

###################################################################

BROWSER=`which mozilla 2>&1`

if [ ! -x "$BROWSER" ]; then

BROWSER=`which netscape`

if [ ! -x "$BROWSER" ]; then

BROWSER=`which opera`

if [ ! -x "$BROWSER" ]; then

BROWSER=`which konqueror`

if [ ! -x "$BROWSER" ]; then

echo No known browser available
exit 1

fi

fi

fi

fi

HOMEPAGE=`grep homepage autorun.inf | awk 'BEGIN {FS="="} {print $2}'`

if [ ! -f "$HOMEPAGE" ]; then

$BROWSER /media/cdrom &

fi

$BROWSER $HOMEPAGE &

exit 0



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it says to save text file as autorun and finish..
but i tried this and this didnt work for me...
i was trying it in UBUNTU, FEDORE..TOO...
PLEASE..CAN ANYONE HELP ME...
THANK YOU VERYMUCH..

Tinkster

The only distro that I've seen using something like
an auto-run feature so far was SuSE Enterprise Desktop.

David the H.

This is very vague. "It didn't work" doesn't tell us much. You need to explain in more detail what you tried and what the output was.

And as both the previous poster and the web page pointed out, autorun ability has to be enabled on the system first, something which most Linux machines don't have by default. Besides, while it's certainly possible to set up commands to run programs when media are inserted--kde and gnome have that feature for example--the actions that will run are user-defined (mount the disk and start the file manager, for example) and they will not generally pay any attention to an arbitrary "autorun" file on the media itself.

Personally I absolutely despise any kind of automatic media actions (even simple pop-up dialogs), and have purposefully disabled all functions of that sort on my machines (and I did the same on Windows before I switched). Apart from it being a security risk (why would anyone let some script run arbitrary commands before knowing what they are?), it's also just plain annoying, since what I want to do is not necessarily what the media thinks I want to do. Autorunning media is just a BAD IDEA, in my opinion.

niroperera

Hi.. David the H.

Please forgive me for my bad questioning. Thank you for your kind reply.
that was right. autorun is a bad idea for any PC..
but i wanted to tryout a cd which can run on linux, windows and mac when only by inserting cd into cdrom....

when doing this...I used to create ISO image, using Cgywin(on windows). on cd media there is a autorun.inf for windows..
and another file called "autorun"(specified above discuss containing that code was there) for Linux. and autorun feature for mac was written when ISO image create(But i couldn't tested this on MAC).

CD contains html page(index.html) which called by autorun file.. that is the beginning page..
So...need is to open this index.html file when insert cd to drive...
as so far u saying, is it possible to do..?
as u said..it have to enable(autorun function on Linux) in user's machine..
or are there any other method to open that index.html file..without any special user activity on linux...
I'm very appreciating your help..
and again sory about my bad asking question..
thanks..