I need for mozilla to autorun after the system boots. I am running an input program through a browser and do not want ANY user interaction with the OS. The machines actually have no keyboard or mouse, just a bc scanner.

Also, is there any way to get VNC or Xwin to share the same desktop as the locally logged in user like Windowz does with VNC. This way if I need to see that actual desktop I can see what the user is doing.

Thanks for any help!

I am running Fedora Core 1.

You could make init 3 the default runlevel,
create a user mozilla,
give the user mozilla a ~/.xinitrc
with exec mozilla as the last line
and then, from rc.local,
do a
su -c startx mozilla



Cheers,
Tink

I was just trying to add "mozilla" to the end of the rc.local file. I created a special user called "track" that I am using but I also need that user to autologin to the system. How would I have the user autologin to run level "init 3"?

Also, I am not sure what you meant by:

"give the user mozilla a ~/.xinitrc
with exec mozilla as the last line"

Are you saying create a file /home/track/.xinitrc
and inserting "exec mozilla"? Sorry, I am not completely sure what you are suggesting.

If track is the user you want to run mozilla as,
yes.

You don't run mozilla from rc.local, though, but that line
su -c startx track



Cheers,
Tink

My rc.local file isn't running at boot automatically. If I run it manually it works and mozilla comes up. If I don't run it manually then nothing happens. The only thing that is in the rc.local file is:

#!/bin/sh
#
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.

touch /var/lock/subsys/local
su -c startx tracking

If I run /etc/rc.d/rc.local I get an error saying permission denied and promted for a password. After I enter the password for the user "track" then the mozilla browser comes up?

Any ideas? Thanks for the help!

The bold bit above is meant to be
the username ... I thought you said
it's track, not tracking?


[edit]
Is your system currently starting in init 3?

If it is, what happens if you login as root,
and do
su -c startx track
?
[/edit]

Cheers,
Tink

No, I boot to init 5 then go into 3. Not sure how to set it to auto go into 3.

When I try to run rc.local 3 from root I also get permission denied.

If I run:

su -c startx tracking

as "root" I get permission denied
but as user "tracking" I get prompted for a password?

I just don't think the rc.local file is running at startup?
Also, why am I getting prompted for password. Is there a way I can automate that as well?

Sorry, I changed user to tracking.

-Thanks

Sorry, now root will run:

su -c startx tracking

successfully with no password prompt and go directly into mozilla, but user "tracking" gets prompted for password. But I still have to run the command manually.

Sorry m8, but I'm at loss here ... that root/tracking
should be denied permission to run startx
can only mean that this is a DeadRat (Fedora)
specific feature ...

What does
ls -l `which startx`
give you?


Cheers,
Tink

It gives me:

/usr/X11R6/bin/startx

Maybe I will try RH9 instead.

-thanks

That would be the output of
which startx
not of
ls -l `which startx`


It should look similar to this:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3220 2004-04-04 12:18 /usr/X11R6/bin/startx



Cheers,
Tink