* runit without getty logon @ 2006-09-24 10:47 wdef 2006-09-24 11:17 ` wdef 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: wdef @ 2006-09-24 10:47 UTC (permalink / raw) Is it possible to set runit up to not use getty, but instead automatically switch to another terminal and start X as an ordinary user? I want to use runit this way on a knoppix-based livecd system, where a login makes no sense and I don't want the user to have to be therer to manually switch terminals with ctrl-alt-F5. I just want it to just boot up into X from go without user intervention. I've found I can switch to ordinaryuser and have X start as a service without the getty and login (run contains eg su -p --command=xinit ordinaryuser), but it refuses to start with fluxbox icons etc whether I start up using xinit or startx, as if it's not reading these in HOME. But HOME is explicity set within run, so this puzzles me. Also, if you quit X from this, you go to ... nothing! It's replaced the terminal. I'm imagining stty can be used instead of getty to automatically start up a new terminal in which to run X ...? ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: runit without getty logon 2006-09-24 10:47 runit without getty logon wdef @ 2006-09-24 11:17 ` wdef 2006-09-24 13:31 ` wdef 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: wdef @ 2006-09-24 11:17 UTC (permalink / raw) wdef <WDef200 <at> yahoo.co.uk> writes: Ah, just found this: http://linuxgazette.net/issue72/chung.html Explains quite a bit. I should be starting up a bash shell as the ordinary user, not X, so that the knoppix ~/.bash_profile gets read and X starts by itself? I'll need to go and try this. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: runit without getty logon 2006-09-24 11:17 ` wdef @ 2006-09-24 13:31 ` wdef 2006-12-15 10:09 ` Toni Mueller 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: wdef @ 2006-09-24 13:31 UTC (permalink / raw) ok, this works - starting a service with this in run: su - ordinaryuser There is an error message about "no job control" - is this important or not? (I eventually found where the livecd starts up the ordinaryuser shell and it does exactly the above in a while loop.) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: runit without getty logon 2006-09-24 13:31 ` wdef @ 2006-12-15 10:09 ` Toni Mueller 0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Toni Mueller @ 2006-12-15 10:09 UTC (permalink / raw) wdef wrote: > There is an error message about "no job control" - is this important or not? I don't think that it is important. Job control means that you can suspend and re-foreground between different jobs. When you are on your shell, this typically works with "^Z" for suspend and "fg" or "%n" (n being the job number) to foreground such a job. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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