Dear all,

I wrote a program in C language which has to
display a message box on the screen (in X windows).

I used the following code
I works well When I run it in the background manually on the console
but It doesn't work When I put it in /etc/rc.local file.

/etc/rc.local contains the following line:

The above program gets executed but the dialog doesn't appear.


Please give me some idea...

Thanks

I am not an expert on rc.local but if I am not mistaken it is executed after the init scripts are run.
This has implications, such as you cannot assume X is running, it will probably be run with root privileges,
and be run before you have a chance to login as a user!
You might want to write to a log file or move your program so that it is executed after X is started or when a user logs in!

Have you tried running your program when booted to 'single-user mode' or one of the 'text-only modes' when X is not loaded?

What does your program do?

type msgbox instead of mesgbox, it should work.

system("kdialog --msgbox \" Some Message text\"");

Regards,
B.Arunachalam

Dear Roy,

Thanks for reply..

The purpose of the program is to remind the user about
the time of shutdown.

So the C program will be running in the background and checks
the system time repeatedly for every five minutes.
When the system times lies in between the specified time,
the program will show the appropriate message to the user
using kdialog and after few minutes it will shutdown the system.

The program shuts down the system exactly when somebody works
with Desktop(X and multiuser mode) but the dialog was not displayed....

thanks

Dear barunva,

Thanks for your reply.

It was a typing mistake but in the program i gave correctly.

thanks.

IMHO you'd better add the line running your program into each user ".bashrc" file, and for future users into "/etc/skel/.bashrc"