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Run a command at login
As a user, how can I run the following command (to start dropbox) everytime I login?
~/.dropbox-dist/dropbox & I am on open suse 11.4, soon to be 12.1 I was browsing the forums and saw a post from years ago that solved it by adding the command to etc/rc.local, however I can't find that file and when i try to cd there, it says file does not exist. If you need any more info let me know. thanks |
If you want it to start when the user logs in (which would be a good thing with dropbox) rather than being launched when the machine starts (which would be the case when you put that in rc.local) just add the command to your ~/.bashrc file.
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here is the contents of the .cshrc file: # # Standard .cshrc file for new accounts # # If you want the system to shut up (i.e. skip all of the # xxxxxx added to environment messages at login), uncomment the next line setenv QUIET 1 # The following lines set up a default, generic account which will work on # all of the supported operating systems in the department. If you want to # change the set of software available in your account, see the COG web site # at http://intranet.cs.nmsu.edu/COG/CogDocs/setup.html, comment out the next # line and see the tail end of this file. source /local/config/cshrc.standard source ~/.alias # Custom configurations # To customize, comment out the first source line of this file and uncomment # the section below. Read the COG documentation on customizing your account. # For the impatient - the setenv statements below register the OS name and # revision you have logged in on. The if/then/else statements select a # section based on the OS name and revision. The source statemetns inside # the branches actually do the work. In this code, they again source the # default setups, which are different on each OS. A reasonable starting point # is to log in to the OS for which you wish to customize and replace the # appropriate cshrc.standard line with the contents of the # /local/config/cshrc.standard file on that platform, then add and delete # source lines as needed #setenv OS_NAME `uname -s` # #if( $OS_NAME == "Linux" ) then # source /local/config/cshrc.standard #else if ( $OS_NAME == "SunOS" ) then # # This part is for Solaris # source /local/config/cshrc.standard #else # echo "Unknown Operating System" #endif source /home/CS273/cshrc.cs273 |
If you don't have .bashrc, but you have .cshrc that indicates that you are not using Bash, but csh as shell. I know nothing about .csh, but I would just try to add that command at the end of the file (yes, just type it in).
If that doesn't work try to create a .bashrc and add the command there. |
Putting it in .bashrc will cause it to run every time he opens a terminal. Probably not what he's looking for with dropbox...
OP - you need to be more clear exactly WHEN you want this to run. When the machine first boots up? When the user first logs in in a text session? When the user first logs in in a graphical session? Every time the user opens a terminal? All of these have different solutions and ramifications. |
I just added it to the end of the .cshrc file, then i logged out and logged back in and it appears to be running because the dopbox icon is on the system tray (it never showed up there until i ran the command before).
So that seemed to have worked. Thanks! |
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For what it's worth, I have mine set to launch on boot using the cron.
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For the tsch shell, look at this from the info file:
Commands like stty(1) and tset(1), which need be run only once per login, usually go in one's ~/.login file. The ~/.login file is also used for the csh. (In SuSE, the /bin/csh command is a dynamic link to the /bin/tsch command.) For items when you log in, check for the term "login shell" in the documentation. It is common to set an environment variable in a wrapper. The script should check for this variable and if it doesn't exist, set it and start the service. If it does exist, don't start the service. You might instead check if the dropbox service creates a PID file, and check for that instead. You could have logged into vt2 after being logged in graphically. Also, for system startup commands, there is a directory /etc/profile.d/ that contain system wide startup scripts for different shells. You could create a dropbox.sh & dropbox.csh script in this directory to start dropbox system wide. This script might for example simple set a variable a user would need. See the /etc/profile.d/cvs.tcsh for an example. |
To clarify - I would like the command to run one time, when i log onto a machine (graphical session). I am not root, just a user, so i only need it to start for me.
It does try to start it every time I open a terminal, which isn't ideal even though it does appear to be smart enough to kill one of the sessions. See below: [1] 11893 daedalus[998]% Another instance of Dropbox (10221) is running! [1] Exit 255 ~/.dropbox-dist/dropbox daedalus[998]% I don't really want to see this every time I open a terminal. So here is whats in my home directory which is all i have access to as a user right? I don't see a .login :( Does anyone see the place i should put it? Or will i have access to a .login somewhere outside my home directory? daedalus[998]% ls -all total 366 drwxr-xr-x 78 ccarter guest 3072 2011-12-16 07:59 . drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 512 2011-01-07 15:32 .. drwx------ 5 ccarter guest 512 2009-07-10 09:28 .adobe -rw-r--r-- 1 ccarter guest 161 2001-03-20 10:40 .alias drwx------ 3 ccarter cogall 512 2011-08-04 16:52 .alice -rw------- 1 ccarter guest 140 2009-07-30 13:37 .appletviewer drwx------ 2 ccarter cogall 512 2011-08-23 16:15 .arduino drwx------ 2 ccarter cogall 512 2011-12-15 14:55 bin drwx------ 10 ccarter guest 512 2011-12-14 08:38 .cache drwx------ 3 ccarter cogall 512 2011-08-04 11:41 .compiz drwx------ 23 ccarter guest 1024 2011-12-14 17:03 .config drwx------ 11 ccarter cogall 512 2011-11-08 17:05 CS273 drwx------ 4 ccarter cogall 512 2011-09-16 10:44 CS371 -rwx------ 1 ccarter guest 1707 2011-12-15 16:59 .cshrc drwx------ 3 ccarter guest 512 2010-08-31 11:36 .dbus drwx------ 2 ccarter guest 512 2011-12-14 12:55 Desktop -rw------- 1 ccarter cogall 28 2011-12-16 07:59 .dmrc drwxr-xr-x 18 ccarter guest 1024 2011-12-14 16:51 Documents drwx------ 2 ccarter guest 512 2011-12-15 14:54 Downloads -rw-r--r-- 1 ccarter cogall 61425 2011-12-14 10:25 Drafts drwx------ 3 ccarter cogall 512 2011-12-16 08:06 .dropbox drwx------ 11 ccarter cogall 512 2011-12-16 07:59 Dropbox drwx------ 4 ccarter cogall 2048 2011-12-05 12:46 .dropbox-dist drwx------ 4 ccarter cogall 512 2011-12-14 08:44 .eclipse -rw------- 1 ccarter cogall 641 2011-12-14 10:50 .emacs drwx------ 3 ccarter cogall 512 2011-12-14 10:50 .emacs.d -rw------- 1 ccarter guest 16 2009-07-08 09:43 .esd_auth drwx------ 7 ccarter cogall 512 2011-12-09 11:26 .evolution drwx------ 2 ccarter guest 1536 2011-12-14 09:52 .fontconfig drwx------ 5 ccarter guest 512 2011-12-16 07:59 .gconf drwx------ 2 ccarter guest 512 2011-12-16 08:06 .gconfd drwx------ 12 ccarter guest 512 2011-12-15 17:03 .gnome2 drwx------ 2 ccarter guest 512 2009-07-08 09:43 .gnome2_private drwxr-xr-x 2 ccarter guest 512 2011-12-15 17:00 .gstreamer-0.10 -rw------- 1 ccarter cogall 177 2011-12-16 07:59 .gtk-bookmarks drwx------ 2 ccarter guest 512 2009-07-08 09:43 .gvfs -rw------- 1 ccarter guest 321 2009-07-08 10:21 Hello.java~ -rw------- 1 ccarter guest 22420 2011-12-16 08:06 .history drwxr----- 2 ccarter guest 512 2010-08-31 11:36 .hplip -rw------- 1 ccarter guest 69225 2011-12-16 07:59 .ICEauthority drwx------ 5 ccarter cogall 512 2011-08-22 10:32 .icedtea drwx------ 3 ccarter guest 512 2010-09-07 12:14 .icedteaplugin drwx------ 2 ccarter guest 512 2010-08-31 11:44 .icons drwx------ 7 ccarter cogall 512 2011-09-16 09:24 .imap drwx------ 4 ccarter cogall 512 2011-12-13 16:50 .java -rw------- 1 ccarter cogall 439 2011-08-15 09:24 .joe_state drwx------ 3 ccarter guest 2048 2011-12-14 12:22 .kde-suse drwx------ 3 ccarter cogall 512 2011-08-02 14:36 .libreoffice drwx------ 3 ccarter guest 512 2009-07-08 09:43 .local drwx------ 3 ccarter cogall 512 2011-12-14 09:04 .m2 drwx------ 3 ccarter guest 512 2009-07-10 09:28 .macromedia drwx------ 3 ccarter cogall 512 2011-12-15 15:40 mail -rw-r--r-- 1 ccarter cogall 60 2011-09-16 09:24 .mailboxlist -rwx------ 1 ccarter guest 62 1995-12-12 16:38 .mailrc drwx------ 2 ccarter cogall 512 2011-08-09 16:27 .mc drwx------ 3 ccarter guest 512 2009-07-08 10:09 .mcop -rw------- 1 ccarter guest 31 2009-08-05 13:46 .mcoprc drwx------ 3 ccarter guest 512 2009-07-08 09:43 .metacity drwx------ 3 ccarter cogall 512 2011-12-09 11:26 .mission-control drwx------ 5 ccarter guest 512 2011-09-07 11:05 .mozilla drwx------ 2 ccarter guest 512 2010-08-31 11:36 Music drwx------ 2 ccarter cogall 512 2011-12-09 12:17 .nautilus drwx------ 3 ccarter cogall 512 2011-12-13 16:50 .netbeans drwx------ 6 ccarter cogall 512 2011-12-14 10:45 NetBeansProjects drwx------ 3 ccarter guest 512 2010-08-31 11:38 .netx -rwx------ 1 ccarter guest 0 2001-03-20 10:47 .newsrc drwx------ 3 ccarter cogall 512 2011-12-09 11:57 .nv drwx------ 3 ccarter guest 512 2011-08-02 14:37 .ooo-2.0 drwx------ 2 ccarter guest 512 2011-12-14 10:02 Pictures drwx------ 2 ccarter guest 512 2010-08-31 11:36 Public drwxr-xr-x 2 ccarter cogall 512 2011-11-22 10:45 public_html drwx------ 2 ccarter cogall 19968 2011-12-14 12:22 .pulse -rw------- 1 ccarter guest 256 2009-07-08 09:43 .pulse-cookie drwx------ 2 ccarter guest 512 2009-07-08 10:02 .qt drwx------ 3 ccarter cogall 512 2011-08-04 10:00 .rcc -rw------- 1 ccarter guest 1958 2009-02-09 10:00 README -rw------- 1 ccarter guest 532 2009-07-28 13:20 .recently-used -rw------- 1 ccarter cogall 24505 2011-12-15 17:03 .recently-used.xbel drwx------ 2 ccarter guest 512 2009-07-08 09:43 .skel drwx------ 2 ccarter cogall 512 2011-08-23 16:15 sketchbook drwx------ 2 ccarter cogall 512 2011-12-15 15:35 .spamassassin drwx------ 2 ccarter cogall 512 2011-08-04 10:44 .ssh drwx------ 3 ccarter cogall 512 2011-08-18 16:29 .subversion drwx------ 3 ccarter cogall 512 2011-12-09 11:59 .swt drwx------ 2 ccarter guest 512 2010-08-31 11:36 Templates drwx------ 5 ccarter cogall 512 2011-12-14 09:00 test2 -rw------- 1 ccarter cogall 95 2011-12-09 12:00 Test.java drwx------ 3 ccarter guest 512 2011-08-26 11:14 .themes drwx------ 4 ccarter guest 512 2011-08-02 13:56 .thumbnails drwx------ 4 ccarter cogall 512 2011-12-14 09:53 .thunderbird drwx------ 4 ccarter guest 512 2010-08-31 11:36 .tomboy -rw------- 1 ccarter guest 4744 2009-08-06 15:44 .tomboy.log drwx------ 2 ccarter guest 512 2010-08-31 11:36 Videos -rw------- 1 ccarter guest 4184 2011-12-15 16:43 .viminfo drwx------ 2 ccarter guest 512 2009-08-06 15:44 .wapi -rw------- 1 ccarter cogall 115 2011-12-14 10:17 webct_upload_applet.properties drwx------ 6 ccarter cogall 512 2011-12-09 11:55 workspace drwx------ 4 ccarter cogall 512 2011-12-09 12:03 workspace2 drwx------ 4 ccarter cogall 512 2011-12-09 11:59 workspace3 drwx------ 4 ccarter cogall 512 2011-12-09 12:01 workspace4 drwx------ 4 ccarter cogall 512 2011-12-13 16:58 workspaceR -rw------- 1 ccarter cogall 420 2011-12-16 07:59 .Xauthority drwx------ 2 ccarter guest 512 2010-08-31 12:01 .xine -rw------- 1 ccarter cogall 27138 2011-09-15 17:02 .xsession-error -rw-r--r-- 1 ccarter cogall 24979 2011-12-16 08:07 .xsession-errors -rw------- 1 ccarter cogall 7361 2011-08-19 15:31 .xsession-errors.old daedalus[999]% |
Put your script in ~/.local. You should have indicated which shell you are using up front in the first post.
A login shell is a shell that starts when you login. In bash, it sources .profile. In csh it sources .local The ~/.local file is in your directory listing. If it doesn't exist, then create a new one. |
Okay, where exactly do I put the command? Do I need to create a new directory?
I see the .local, in that directory there is a "share" directory and within share i have all of these directories: ls -all total 86 drwx------ 16 ccarter guest 512 2011-12-16 17:00 . drwx------ 3 ccarter guest 512 2011-12-19 08:18 .. drwx------ 2 ccarter cogall 512 2011-12-16 08:16 applications -rw------- 1 ccarter guest 0 2010-08-31 11:36 .converted-launchers drwx------ 2 ccarter cogall 512 2011-08-02 16:55 desktop-directories drwx------ 6 ccarter cogall 512 2011-12-09 11:26 evolution drwx------ 2 ccarter cogall 512 2011-12-09 11:26 folks drwx------ 4 ccarter guest 512 2011-12-14 12:22 gnome-do drwx------ 2 ccarter guest 512 2010-08-31 11:36 gnome-main-menu drwx------ 3 ccarter cogall 512 2011-12-16 16:59 gnome-shell -rw------- 1 ccarter cogall 731 2011-12-09 11:25 gsettings-data-convert drwx------ 2 ccarter guest 1536 2011-12-19 08:20 gvfs-metadata drwx------ 2 ccarter guest 512 2011-12-15 15:14 parcellite -rw------- 1 ccarter cogall 68973 2011-12-16 17:00 recently-used.xbel drwx------ 3 ccarter cogall 512 2011-12-09 11:26 telepathy drwx------ 2 ccarter guest 512 2010-08-31 11:36 tomboy drwx------ 3 ccarter guest 512 2011-12-19 08:16 tracker drwx------ 5 ccarter guest 512 2011-08-02 16:54 Trash drwx------ 3 ccarter cogall 512 2011-08-22 10:24 webkit pwd /home/nacs1/ccarter/.local/share |
KDE has an autostart functionality too. I'm sitting in front of a windows box, so I can't look for it now, but I seem to remember that you can reach it via the control center.
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