[techtalk] Direct boot

2000-01-30 Thread Judith Bush
For a kiosk i have built, i have this script in /etc/init.d/ so the machine goes straight to the user interface upon boot. It's nothing fancy and certainly could be cleaned up. The essentail line is: su - kiosk -c startx & in which root su's to the user and executes the command to start th

[techtalk] Computer clock way slow

2000-01-27 Thread Judith Bush
I've had a similar problem in my Debian disto. Check /etc/adjtime. It's safe to simply remove. That should quit the drift. I find using hwclock --systohc is what creates the /etc/adjtime file. Hope this helps, j --- Judith E. Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] P O Box