From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 0); 10 Aug 1996 13:53:54 -0000 MBOX-Line: From sholmes@primenet.com Sat Aug 10 15:52:48 1996 Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 504); 10 Aug 1996 13:25:26 -0000 Received: (qmail-queue invoked from smtpd); 10 Aug 1996 13:25:20 -0000 Received: from mailhost1.primenet.com (206.165.5.51) by goldfish.cube.net with SMTP; 10 Aug 1996 13:25:18 -0000 Received: from primenet.com (root@mailhost01.primenet.com [206.165.5.52]) by mailhost1.primenet.com (8.7.5/8.7.1) with ESMTP id GAA28372; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 06:24:56 -0700 (MST) Received: from sholmes.phx.primenet.com (sholmes.phx.primenet.com [204.245.17.238]) by primenet.com (8.7.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id GAA08390; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 06:24:48 -0700 (MST) From: sholmes@primenet.com (Steve Holmes) To: Graham Swallow Cc: blinux-list@goldfish.cube.net Subject: Re: Booting Linux - starting apps on consoles Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 13:25:11 GMT Reply-To: sholmes@primenet.com Message-ID: <320c8af4.43428758@mailhost.primenet.com> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/16.227 List-Id: Not to be dumb here, but what does this do for increased accessability? What are the advantages of dynamic-vc? Thanks, On Thu, 1 Aug 1996 01:57:12 +0100 (BST), you wrote: > to start up programs on VC's, without having to login on every one, > remove/replace the getty's in /etc/inittab (leave one), and use the > dynamic-vc package from ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/console > and commands like: > > open -c 3 -- su - > open -c 4 -- su - > open -c 5 -- su - > open -c 6 -- su - gps > open -c 6 -- su - gps -c openwin & > > ie I login as root, run that script and it does the rest. > I'm even considering removing the need to login as root, > and have it simply boot into that mode. > > Graham gps@trix.dircon.co.uk >-- > ----------------------------------- > http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~trix <-- Linux Info Pages > http://trix.dircon.co.uk/ (dial-up) <-- Raven Kept Here > ----------------------------------- > >---