/etc/rc.local

newbie007007 · 05-23-2005, 04:29 PM

Hi,

This is my /etc/rc.local file.

Code:

#!/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
konsole

I added the line "konsole" so that everytime system boots , Konsole gets opened.
But I am not getting it.
Can someone tell me where is the problem???

Thank you.

rjlee · 05-23-2005, 04:52 PM

You are not setting the DISPLAY environment variable. You can have more than one X server session on a computer, and the DISPLAY variable says which one to use. Assuming you only have one X server, you want to set DISPLAY to :0.0

Another problem is that you're running konsole in the foreground. While this isn't a problem as such, it will stop anything that you might put in the boot scripts after konsole from running until konsole has finished. Put an ampusand (&) after the command to run it in the background.

Thirdly, you're running konsole from the start-up scripts as root, on start-up. This is a bad idea; anyone can just start up your machine and have a root console to log in as. You probably want to create a ~/.Xsession file and put konsole in that, along with you window-manager command (like startkde). But that may take more effort to get it working; the alternative is to use su or sudo instead:

Code:

sudo username -c 'konsole' &