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 the X
interface.
Note how to use inet.d in whatever distribution you have, so the script
runs at boot. In Debian see /etc/init.d/README &
http://localhost/doc/debian-policy/.
Cheers,
judith
#! /usr/bin/tcsh
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#
# Science Pulse configuration file. This file is copyright 1999 The Franklin
# Institute Science Museum. <http://www.fi.edu>
# By Judith E. Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
#
# $Header$
# $Log$
#
# BUGS:
#
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# skeleton example file to build /etc/init.d/ scripts.
# This file should be used to construct scripts for /etc/init.d.
#
# Written by Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
# Modified for Debian GNU/Linux
# by Ian Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
#
# Version: @(#)skeleton 1.8 03-Mar-1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#
set PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
##DAEMON=/usr/sbin/daemon
set NAME=kiosk
set DESC="kiosk auto boot"
## test -f $DAEMON || exit 0
##set -e
switch ( $1 )
case "start":
echo -n "Starting ${DESC}: "
su - kiosk -c startx &; echo $! >! /var/run/$NAME.pid
#start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid \
# --exec $DAEMON
echo "$NAME."
breaksw
case "stop":
echo -n "Stopping $DESC: "
#start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid \
# --exec $DAEMON
kill -12 `cat /var/run/$NAME.pid`
echo "$NAME."
breaksw
#case "reload":
#
# If the daemon can reload its config files on the fly
# for example by sending it SIGHUP, do it here.
#
# If the daemon responds to changes in its config file
# directly anyway, make this a do-nothing entry.
#
# echo "Reloading $DESC configuration files."
# start-stop-daemon --stop --signal 1 --quiet --pidfile \
# /var/run/$NAME.pid --exec $DAEMON
#breaksw
case "restart":
#
# If the "reload" option is implemented, move the "force-reload"
# option to the "reload" entry above. If not, "force-reload" is
# just the same as "restart".
#
echo -n "Restarting $DESC: "
kill -12 `cat /var/run/$NAME.pid`
su - kiosk -c startx &; echo $! >! /var/run/$NAME.pid
# start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile \
# /var/run/$NAME.pid --exec $DAEMON
# sleep 1
# start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile \
# /var/run/$NAME.pid --exec $DAEMON
echo "$NAME."
breaksw
default:
set N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
# echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}" >&2
echo "Usage: $N {start|stop}" >&2
exit (1)
breaksw
endsw
exit
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