Re:Starting EMC automatically

> From: Karl Klemm <kklemm@...>
>Subject: Re: EMC / Linux

>To run EMC you must be in linux. Since you have to login to linux there
>is no way for it to automatically boot to EMC, this would be neat
>though. You can probably modify one of the xwindows startup files so that
>when you enter xwindows it starts up emc that way. To boot directly to
>emc you would probably need to write your own rtlinux emulator OS, that
>would be fun.

No, it would be simpler than that. You would just add a startup file to
the /etc/rc.d/rc.3 directory that did an 'su - emcuser' then started X.
You would have to modify the .xsession file of the user account to have
it start emc. No need to start the xdm session manager to ask for login.

It would be a bit tricky to break out of this if you needed to startup
as root to do someting else. I guess you could let it start emc, then
use the <alt><f#> key to go to another console.

If I get a chance Ill set this up and post the exact files.

ron