help for inittab

[vineeta7]

hi

I want to run gtk+ console application directly when system boots insted getting console of login.And system shld run that application only.

inittab can do this (As i got this information from forum).But How to run it exactly (which command i shld included in inittab).

As my gtk+ output file is resided on home/user/data folder.

Please help me or tell me if anyother way we can run directly application .


Regards
Vineeta7

[Lakshmipathi]

Hi,
It's better to place it in .profile file the user .
I'm not sure placing GUI program in inittab will work
anyway-if u wanna try check out do this,
youapplication::boot:/usr/bin/yourapplication -u > /dev/null

i assume ur executable is in /usr/bin directory

[vineeta7]

Yes I have included my gtk+ application executable file i.e test1
Like this test1::boot:/usr/bin/test1 -u > /dev/null

I have also included this in usr/bin file.

But still it is not running automatically after login.

Please help

vineeta7

[Lakshmipathi]

Yes I have included my gtk+ application executable file i.e test1
Like this test1::boot:/usr/bin/test1 -u > /dev/null

I have also included this in usr/bin file.

But still it is not running automatically after login.

Please help

vineeta7

Hi vineeta,
Sorry it's my mistake ,
test1::boot:/usr/bin/test1 -u > /dev/null
test1 can't be GUI application.
As i said before,i don't think inittab supports GUI application to startup.
First check whether u can run from ur command prompt?
/usr/bin/test1

If so then,
place this entry in your .bash_profile file

Go to your /home directory and type ls -a ..u can see your profile file
HTH

[vineeta7]

Yes i can run it from /usr/bin/

But how to set this in .bash_profile??? what is a command to run test1 from .bash_profile?

please reply

vineeta7

[Lakshmipathi]

can you see .bash_profile file in your home directory??
ls -a /home/oss

i'm using oss user name.
Just add you command there.
else post your ls -a output here

[likwid]

Give more of an explanation of what you want to do.

[vineeta7]

If my output is test.out file.

if i want to run it from vi editor then command is ./test

if i want to run it through .bash_profile then what shald i write in the same file.

This file is located in usr/bin and also run from that path..

so tell me the command that shld i write in .bash_profile??

Hope this u must hv understand my question..

regards'
vineeta7

[Lakshmipathi]

Hi,
Sorry,Still i dont get it.
Anyway here is what one should do for any command to be executed during log in.
For example i'll invoke xmms player during login.

Step 1: find path name of ur executable.
$which xmms
/usr/bin/xmms
Step 2:Now open .bash_profile
and place this entry.

$vi .bash_profile
/usr/bin/xmms &

HTH

[bunty82]

i think Vineeta you better tell
which Linux distro ur using
this will make easy for us to tell you