Re: Re:Starting EMC automatically

Thank you Ron.
Darrell

----- Original Message -----
From: Ron Ginger <ginger@...>
To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@onelist.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 6:55 AM
Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re:Starting EMC automatically


> From: Ron Ginger <ginger@...>
>
> > 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
>
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