Hello,

I am developing embedded linux system. So I need to start my application on staring a Linux system without logging in. If you know how to do that, please reply that.

thank you.

depends what you really want to log in to, but being an embedded system i'd guess it's a more than safe assumption you mean to a console. the further you go down an embedded route the less and less the sysvinit scripts make sense, and it's only arbitrary processes that mean you need to log in at all. IF you wish to remain with the standard sysvinit world, then you would want to personalise the /etc/inittab file. choose a standard runlevel, i'd possibly suggest 2 or 4 (generally not used by convention) and change it so that one of the getty's that are spawned uses an --autologin option (this exists for mingetty, not sure about other getty programs) and then go from there. that's only a login though... do you not want to just run a program without all that? you can easily configure that logged in users .bashrc to kick off a program when it's logging into a certain tty (i.e. the one defined as special in inittab) but this is a fairly long winded way to run an embedded system. when this is configured for a single runlevel, if you then boot to runlevel 3 you can still arrive at a fully standard system without the customizations, a safe mode, or configuration mode or whatever you might want to think of it as.


http://linuxgazette.net/issue27/kodis.html

First of all I assume that you are not asking if you could run it as a service (then there would be no need to log in) because you say it is an application.

You might be able to run a modified (a custom) init or getty on your system to get your work done. This is just a suggestion. I haven't yet tried something like that. This requires careful implementation since this can affect your whole system very easily.

How you does the it may differ depending on the init system you use. May be you are using SysV init. May be you are using BusyBox init ot Minit or something else.

I'd also suggest you to read Karim Yaghmour's Building Embedded Linux Systems. This is an excellent book. No doubt about it. You may find it a lot useful, especially the init sections.