Working script won't work in rc.local

[Chris Snook]

Barry Yu wrote:
> 
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> */Barry Yu <barryyu-cts at sbcglobal.net>/* wrote:
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>     */Paul Lemmons <paul.lemmons at tmcaz.com>/* wrote:
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>         ------- Original Message --------
>         Subject: Working script won't work in rc.local
>         From: Barry Yu
>         To: Fedora list
>         Date: 02/18/2008 09:10 AM
>          > My working script won't work at startup when I inserted it into
>          > rc.local - It works perfectly in terminal when I manually
>         execute it
>          > there. Am I putting my script in wrong place and how can I auto
>          > execute it when starting up F8?
>          > Thanks for helping
>          >
>         What is the first line of your script? Is it "#!/bin/bash"? Is
>         it marked
>         as executable? Is there more information you can give as to what is
>         happening?
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>     Here is my rc.local file, my script is the last line;
> 
>     #!/bin/sh
>     #
>     # This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
>     # You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
>     # want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.
> 
>     touch /var/lock/subsys/local
>     /home/Scripts/./dumon
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> 
> Below is the entire content of my script;
> 
> xrandr --output VGA --auto --output TMDS-1 --auto --right-of VGA
> 

This needs to be executed inside an X session.  rc.local has even less 
environment than cron, where this also will not work.  This belongs in a 
window manager startup script of some sort.

	-- Chris