On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 16:07 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:

On Thursday 04 June 2009 16:02:55 Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* James Pifer [06-04-09 08:50]:

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What's the best way to autostart something on opensuse/sles? I know about /etc/init.d/boot.local, but that happens too early.

there is also possible, /etc/init.d/boot.after, but you must create the file.

I think you mean /etc/init.d/after.local, which (if present) gets run after all runlevel scripts have been run

There is also /etc/init.d/before.local, which gets run before the runlevel scripts (but after the boot.* scripts)

And there is the method Per mentioned, which I think is generally preferred

That sounds promising. Just create the file and add your commands? I'll try that! Thanks, James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 12:23 -0500, Rajko M. wrote:

On Thursday 04 June 2009 11:33:27 am James Pifer wrote: ...

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That sounds promising. Just create the file and add your commands? ...

Check the skeleton script in /etc/init.d .

I did look at the skeleton script, but there are some things that really don't need an init script, or at least I don't need it. Just need to run them once if the server is restarted. I created after.local and added a few commands. A couple of them worked. I'm trying to kick off a vncserver, but that one doesn't work. ie: /usr/X11R6/bin/vncserver :49 -alwaysshared -geometry 1024x768 I've tried with both full path to vnc and not full. I know vncserver can be setup with an init script, but any idea why it doesn't run this way? Thanks, James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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I've tried with both full path to vnc and not full. I know vncserver can be setup with an init script, but any idea why it doesn't run this way?

My crystal ball is a little foggy - why don't you check your logs.

grep'ed all the files in /var/log for vnc and found no issues. A few things in messages but that pertained to sles' vncserver settings. Maybe your crystal ball can tell me where i might find another log to look at.... James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

For something that went wrong during init, look at var/log/boot.msg

Thanks, that helped. I had to add PATH, USER, and HOME to after.local. Now it starts, but it's loading the wrong window manager. Instead of gnome-session it's starting fvwm. What's interesting is that when the vncserver starts, it says: Starting applications specified in /root/.vnc/xstartup Log file is /root/.vnc/server01:49.log xstartup: #!/bin/sh # Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop: unset SESSION_MANAGER exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc xrdb $HOME/.Xresources gnome-session& If I start vncserver after the system is totally booted and logged in as root, then it correctly starts gnome-session. So I assume something is still missing in the environment variables. Thanks, James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org