2007/2/23, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:58:52 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > how can I do an automatic login on startup ? That depends on where you want to login - console, KDE, GNOME, another WM?
Neil is right. GDM and KDM have their own built-in auto-login mechanisms. If you're using xdm, I think you'll have to play with the /etc/X11 files a bit more. If you just want a startx with a modified .xinitrc, changing the inittab to run whatever you want would suffice. However, doing it in /etc/conf.d/local.start or inittab may seem the same but it's not. Personally, I wouldn't add an autologin command to local.start, since some services might depend on it to start, and they wouldn't be able until that command you add to local.start finishes. You would have to force the creation of a child process, so that the parent can stop and the init procedure can go on. --
Neil Bothwick Blessed be the pessimist for he hath made backups.
