auto login + run programs

ferradura · 09-26-2006, 04:44 AM

i wanted to auto login as a normal user at boot time so i tried:
nano /etc/rc.d/rc.local
adding su - username
sucess

but i can`t run local commands here right?

but know i also want to be able tu run a program, noip+opendchub. tried that ~/.profile tip but did not work.
is there a way i can run programs/commands automatically?

because i just want to press the power button and then let the machine do its job...

thanks

cybi · 09-26-2006, 05:48 AM

you can put `sudo -u user commmand` in the /etc/rc.d/rc.local to automaticaly start those apps it works for me

ferradura · 09-26-2006, 04:49 PM

i dont use sudo, nor know how to...

my rc.local:

Code:

su username
su username program

and the output is a correct login of the user +

Code:

bash: no job control in this shell

what to do?

raska · 09-26-2006, 05:03 PM

use this

Code:

su - <user> -c "command"

cybi · 09-26-2006, 05:22 PM

...or this

Code:

sudo -u user_name program_to_execute

ferradura · 09-28-2006, 02:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by raska

use this

Code:

su - <user> -c "command"

still no jobs in this shell

cybi · 09-28-2006, 02:55 PM

firstly su root and check those commands which you entered in rc.local then there is a question like this

if no error displayed the check is there any output while system start and executing rc.local

if still nothing the pipe the standard error output from the program you try to execute to some file like ~/rc.error.log

Alien Bob · 09-28-2006, 03:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ferradura

i dont use sudo, nor know how to...

I once wrote a little bit about using sudo and su here: http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/...linux:admin#su

Eric

ferradura · 09-30-2006, 08:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ferradura

still no jobs in this shell

i keep getting the same error message, even if i run the command as root...no jobs in this shell.

can it be a bash problem?
is there other ways to start up programs/services/daemons at boot time?

dive · 09-30-2006, 11:47 AM

Doesn't it work just putting the names of the programs in rc.local after su - <user>? IE:

su - dive
/usr/bin/noip
/usr/bin/opendchub

??

ferradura · 10-01-2006, 08:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dive

Doesn't it work just putting the names of the programs in rc.local after su - <user>? IE:

su - dive
/usr/bin/noip
/usr/bin/opendchub

??

those are the programs that i am trying to run...
it won`t work if i try to run as a user, it will only work as a daemon...those su - user commands do not work...

/etc/rc.d/rc.local is like this know

Code:

noip
sleep 20
opendchub

i am running the programs as daemons, since i have not found a way to do run them trough a user

thanks anyways

fotoguy · 10-04-2006, 04:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ferradura

i am running the programs as daemons, since i have not found a way to do run them trough a user

The reason you have to run them as daemons is a normal user does not have permissions to execute binaries or scripts outside there home directory. The rc.local file is executed by root so everything placed in there will run with root permissions.

As for autologin, KDE and Gnome have an autologin feature, if you not using them you could try uing the /etc/inittab file to autologin