Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 23:06:39 +0200 From: Joost Bekkers <joost@bps.jodocus.org> To: Edvard Fagerholm <desti@sigtrap.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Starting programs automatically during boot on a virtual terminal Message-ID: <20020911210639.GA298@bps.jodocus.org> In-Reply-To: <3D7F7C6D.6010807@sigtrap.com> References: <3D7F7C6D.6010807@sigtrap.com>
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On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 08:25:01PM +0300, Edvard Fagerholm wrote: > Hello! > > I need to start a curses based front-end to an application automatically > during boot on a terminal without ever asking for any login or similar. > How can this be done in FreeBSD? On linux you can use inittab and use > the binary "open" to configure the terminal, but I've got no idea how to > do it on FreeBSD. > > So ttyv0 should be running this program and all the other terminals > should have a normal login prompt. I've looked at various files like > /etc/ttys where you can specify the terminal application to run, but you > can't just run any application here as it has to configure the terminal > and getty can't be used as it doesn't run any other binary than "login". > You can create a user who will automatically start that program on login and instruct getty to autologin with that user. in /etc/gettytab copy the 'pc' entry to one with a new name and add 'al=<username>' see gettytab(5) for details in /etc/ttys change the type for ttyv0 from pc to the newly created type send a HUP to init. -- greetz Joost joost@jodocus.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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