Re: [Sheflug] running top on its console?

[Seb James <seb [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 13:54 +0000, Seb James wrote:
> 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.

To put it on the 6th console, for example replace this line in your
inittab (this is gentoo specific, other inittabs will differ slightly):

c6:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux

with:

c6:12345:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/autologin

> 
> 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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