[lug] Linux Single User/Embeded (HELP?)

Sebastian Sobolewski ( Zeb ) spsobole at mindless.com
Tue May 2 15:40:19 MDT 2000


BINGO!

         This worked like a charm.  The sad part is that I read over the 
man pages for init and getty and somehow missed this.

Thanks Lots,
Sebastian


>The problem isn't getting the program to run when the user
>logs in, the problem is that he wants the system to come up
>logged in as the test user.  The way to do this is to make
>clever use of agetty, which I just now looked at (thank
>goodness Linux runs on laptops!).  Used with the -l (something
>other than /bin/login) and -n (don't prompt for a username)
>you should be able to get Linux to come multiuser running
>your application on the first virtual terminal.  You do
>this by making changes in inittab to the virtual consoles
>section (c1..c6 on my slackware distro, YMMV, of course).
>
>Good luck!
>
>Archer Sully
>Boulder, CO
>
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