Re: EMC / Linux

ISTR reading once that to run EMC, you had to be logged in as root. As I don't
use EMC, perhaps someone that does could verify it.

This might make some of the assumptions on login scripts more specific to a machine.

Marshall

----- Original Message -----
From: <paul@...>
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Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] EMC / Linux


> >
> > From: Karl Klemm <kklemm@...>
> >
> >
> > > Karl Klemm wrote:
> > >
> > > > From: Karl Klemm <kklemm@...>
> > > >
> > > > 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, I'm sure this isn't true. I don't know quite enough about the system
> > > configuration and startup scripts, but I'm quite sure, from what I've read in the
> > > run level scripts, that you can do just about ANYTHING having to do with
> > > making programs active at boot time through these scripts.
> > >
> > > But, you do need to know what you are doing, or you could make your
> > > system not boot at all.
> > >
> > > Jon
> > >
> >
> > Do you still have to login to linux, or would said program just show up?
> >
> > Karl
> >
>
> Everything in Unix is user based, if it's not an individual user, it's
> running as root which is not a good general purpose id.
>
> The simple answer would be to set up an id that launches emc once you
> login to it. You can run a X login like xdm instead of starting X from
> the user level so the system comes up with X and you'd type emc in
> response to the user prompt. You can leave off a password if you're
> not worried about security.
>
> Having the emc screen come up completely automatically is possible
> (EVERYTHING is possible with Unix), but it might take a little work.
>
> Paul
>
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