Hi, Can someone please help with autostarting a program. When Linux starts, I want to start an exe before a user logs in (i.e as the machine boots), how do I do this? Kind regards Adrian Wells

Had a look in init.d ... Scary! Sorry exe meaning an executable rather than specifically a windows program. The first that I want to tackle is Squid. I have built 2.5 manually and have to start it from the command line. auto starting would be nice since most things fall over when I'm not here :-) (except when I fiddle!) Kind regards Adrian ----- Original Message ----- From: Derek Harding To: adrian.wells Cc: Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 1:44 PM Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Help please with Samba

If you want to run the exe you would have to do it as the user opens a Windows session - in which case include it in the relevant startup script (as set by the smb.conf entry). If you want to do it for a Linux session - you would have to ensure it runs under wine and force it to run at login on X - unless anyone has better ideas! I'm certainly open to learn from this one. I don't see how you could run an exe (unless it runs under DOS and you use dosemu, perhaps) from a startup script of any kind - Linux and exes don't talk - well, Linux might!

What about University Challenge then - "Unix, C, Linux" being the right answers!

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Hi,

Can someone please help with autostarting a program.

When Linux starts, I want to start an exe before a user logs in (i.e as the machine boots), how do I do this?

Kind regards

Adrian Wells

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Had a look in init.d ... Scary!

Umm, no :) It is not :)

I may be easily scared - the scripts looked overly complicated, why not just a program location and name?

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Sorry exe meaning an executable rather than specifically a windows program. We tend to call the "applications"

We? :-) You can call then that in windows too! :-)

When squid installs, it usually has a script file in:

/etc/init.d

such that:

/etc/init.d/squid start

Can't see it, I'd already looked

can be issued.

This is done at Init usually.

You might also want to edit the file "/etc/rc.config" and set SQUID_START=Yes

Isn't this set up when installing the SuSE RPM of squid? How does it know where I put Squid? Adrian

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Had a look in init.d ... Scary!

Umm, no :) It is not :)

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I may be easily scared - the scripts looked overly complicated, why not just a program location and name?

Heh -- because most of what you see there is designed to be bullet proof,

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Sorry exe meaning an executable rather than specifically a windows program. We tend to call the "applications"

We? :-) You can call then that in windows too! :-)

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When squid installs, it usually has a script file in:

/etc/init.d

such that:

/etc/init.d/squid start

Can't see it, I'd already looked

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can be issued.

This is done at Init usually.

You might also want to edit the file "/etc/rc.config" and set SQUID_START=Yes

Isn't this set up when installing the SuSE RPM of squid? How does it know where I put Squid?

Right, I'll assume that you compiled squid from source, and not from an RPM. In that case, you have two options.

Either you can add a line thus into /etc/init.d/boot.local:

squidctl start

--or--

squid

Alternatively, you can use this script that I developed just a minute ago:

------------------------------------------------------------------------ #!/bin/sh # # Start or stop squid daemon #

OPTS='-D'

case "$1" in start) start-stop-daemon --start --verbose --exec /usr/local/squid/bin/squid -- ${OPTS} & ;; stop) start-stop-daemon --stop --verbose --exec /usr/local/squid/bin/squid ;; *) echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/squid {start|stop}" exit 1 esac

exit 0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for this Thomas, off to play :-) Kind regards Adrian ----- Original Message ----- From: Thomas Adam To: adrian.wells ; Cc: Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Help please with Samba -

This assumes that you have the "start-stop-daemon" program available.

HTH,

-- Thomas Adam

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