Re: [Sheflug] running top on its console?

[Seb James <seb [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 13:34 +0000, somecoolpc wrote:
> All,
> 
> Is it possable to run top on a console , but start the top process @
> boot without any userinteraction on say console 5 or 6? , have tried
> to do this for a while and could not figure it out!
> 
> any help appricated
> 
> Brett
> 

Compile this tiny program, which will autologin a user of your system:

int main() {
   execlp( "login", "login", "-f", "a_random_user", 0);
}

Call it autologin and stick it in /usr/local/sbin or something similar.

Have init run this program; pop a line in /etc/inittab on your gentoo
box.

Put this in the .bashrc or .bash_profile of a_random_user :

#!/bin/sh
/bin/top

And you're done.

Seb

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