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[T. V. Raman]

Janina --
Incidentally, if you then want to create other Virtual Consoles
without having to type a password, from the shell that you got on
tty1 just type 
open <program name>

this will launch the program <program name> on the next available
VC which in a standard inittab situation is VC7 -- so you'd hit
alt-7 to get to it and so on.

In fact this is what X does during xinit which is why the first
desktop is on VC77


>>>>> "Janina" == Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net> writes:
    Janina> Samuel Thibault writes:
    >> Shaun Everiss, le ven 25 fév 2005 05:56:41 +1300, a dit
    >> : > ... is there a autologon or something?
    >> 
    >> There is no standard I'm aware of for text mode, but you
    >> may build your own: in /etc/inittab, there are lines like:
    >> 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
    >> 
    >> You may replace this by 1:2345:respawn:/bin/su -c sh -
    >> yourlogin < /dev/tty1 > /dev/tty1 2>&1
    >> 
    Janina>
Very, very cool, Samuel. Thank you. I have been looking for
    Janina> something like this to use on my portable machine for
    Janina> a long time. Thank you, thank you, thank you! <grin>
    Janina> 
    Janina> Now, one little refinement:
    Janina> 
    Janina> I suggest taking out the '-c sh' as it's superfluous
    Janina> and only launches a subshell and does not execute
    Janina> default configuration scripts.
    Janina> 
    Janina> So, I think a better invocation is:
    Janina> 
    Janina> 1:2345:respawn:/bin/su - yourlogin < /dev/tty1 >
    Janina> /dev/tty1 2>&1
    Janina> 
    Janina> 
    Janina> Sweet. Very sweet.
    Janina> 
    Janina> 				Janina
    Janina> 
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