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On Friday 28 Mar 2014 21:08:02 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:15:56 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > > There is a file that is executed by default at login, I think it |
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> > > is .autorun. I remember having to add an option to ignore it on the |
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> > > LXFDVDs because we use .autorun on those to launch a browser. |
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> > I had a poke around and didn't get anywhere with .autorun, but |
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> > eventually I found that SysRescCD uses zsh, not bash. It hadn't |
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> > occurred to me until then to consider the shell. So that's why the |
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> > auto-login function wasn't behaving the way I expected. |
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> I don't think it's down to the shell, sysresccd includes bash too AFAIR. |
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Yes, bash is present, but root (superuser) has /bin/zsh as its shell in |
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/etc/passwd, so bash scripts aren't run on login. |
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> It's more likely due to me giving your duff information, the file is |
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> autorun not .autorun. |
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I did manage to drop the dot :-) |
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> Aha, just found the proper documentation for it |
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> http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_Run_your_own_scripts_with_autorun |
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That looks interesting - thanks. First though I think I'll pursue getting my |
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aliases, and unaliases, into zsh startup. Or is it simple to change root's |
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login shell? It seems unlikely that simply editing /etc/passwd would do it. |
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Regards |
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Peter |
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