I want my app to run when the computer is turned on, with no login. I
am using photon. Can someone tell me how? Thanks.
Put the command to start your app in /etc/rc.d/rc.local if it is not a
photon app
Markus
“Bruce Davis” <bruce.r.davis@boeing.com> wrote in message
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I want my app to run when the computer is turned on, with no login. I
am using photon. Can someone tell me how? Thanks.
Unfortunately it is a photon app so that does not seem to work. There
must be a way to remove the login prompt from system startup, does
anyone know how to do it?
Markus Loffler wrote:
Put the command to start your app in /etc/rc.d/rc.local if it is not a
photon app
Markus“Bruce Davis” <> bruce.r.davis@boeing.com> > wrote in message
news:> 3B210F36.F7FB4DA8@boeing.com> …
I want my app to run when the computer is turned on, with no login. I
am using photon. Can someone tell me how? Thanks.
I believe if you set USER (or maybe LOGNAME) envar before starting
Photon it will skip phlogin. There is some way to start your app
automatically, but I don’t remember exactly off the top of my head.
Something about ~/.ph file I believe… Another way would be to link
your app to phlogin, lol 
- igor
Bruce Davis wrote:
Unfortunately it is a photon app so that does not seem to work. There
must be a way to remove the login prompt from system startup, does
anyone know how to do it?Markus Loffler wrote:
Put the command to start your app in /etc/rc.d/rc.local if it is not a
photon app
Markus“Bruce Davis” <> bruce.r.davis@boeing.com> > wrote in message
news:> 3B210F36.F7FB4DA8@boeing.com> …
I want my app to run when the computer is turned on, with no login. I
am using photon. Can someone tell me how? Thanks.
Thanks for your reply. Looks like it is the LOGNAME envar according to
the documentation. So my next question is, how do I set that envar so
it will be set before photon starts? I am having trouble figuring out
which scripts start and configure photon at boot. BTW, you start a
photon app by putting it in phapps in the /root/.ph directory.
Igor Kovalenko wrote:
I believe if you set USER (or maybe LOGNAME) envar before starting
Photon it will skip phlogin. There is some way to start your app
automatically, but I don’t remember exactly off the top of my head.
Something about ~/.ph file I believe… Another way would be to link
your app to phlogin, lol >
- igor
Bruce Davis wrote:
Unfortunately it is a photon app so that does not seem to work. There
must be a way to remove the login prompt from system startup, does
anyone know how to do it?Markus Loffler wrote:
Put the command to start your app in /etc/rc.d/rc.local if it is not a
photon app
Markus“Bruce Davis” <> bruce.r.davis@boeing.com> > wrote in message
news:> 3B210F36.F7FB4DA8@boeing.com> …
I want my app to run when the computer is turned on, with no login. I
am using photon. Can someone tell me how? Thanks.
Create a rc.local script file in /etc/rc.d and add ‘export LOGNAME=’.
Make sure to make the file exectubile. This script gets run before photon
is started - it will boot you directly into photon.
Heather
Bruce Davis <bruce.r.davis@boeing.com> wrote:
Thanks for your reply. Looks like it is the LOGNAME envar according to
the documentation. So my next question is, how do I set that envar so
it will be set before photon starts? I am having trouble figuring out
which scripts start and configure photon at boot. BTW, you start a
photon app by putting it in phapps in the /root/.ph directory.Igor Kovalenko wrote:
I believe if you set USER (or maybe LOGNAME) envar before starting
Photon it will skip phlogin. There is some way to start your app
automatically, but I don’t remember exactly off the top of my head.
Something about ~/.ph file I believe… Another way would be to link
your app to phlogin, lol >
- igor
Bruce Davis wrote:
Unfortunately it is a photon app so that does not seem to work. There
must be a way to remove the login prompt from system startup, does
anyone know how to do it?Markus Loffler wrote:
Put the command to start your app in /etc/rc.d/rc.local if it is not a
photon app
Markus“Bruce Davis” <> bruce.r.davis@boeing.com> > wrote in message
news:> 3B210F36.F7FB4DA8@boeing.com> …
I want my app to run when the computer is turned on, with no login. I
am using photon. Can someone tell me how? Thanks.
Thanks, that did the trick - but it had an unexpected consequence.
phapps in /root/.ph does not seem to be run now. The line I put in
rc.local was:
export LOGNAME=root
I seem to logged in as root (which I need for my app to run correctly)
because I have the hash prompt in the shell. Any idea why phapps didn’t
run? I can’t just add it to rc.local (I don’t think so anyway) because
I believe some of the commands need to be run when photon loads.
Heather Kilgour wrote:
Create a rc.local script file in /etc/rc.d and add ‘export LOGNAME=’.
Make sure to make the file exectubile. This script gets run before photon
is started - it will boot you directly into photon.Heather
Bruce Davis <> bruce.r.davis@boeing.com> > wrote:
Thanks for your reply. Looks like it is the LOGNAME envar according to
the documentation. So my next question is, how do I set that envar so
it will be set before photon starts? I am having trouble figuring out
which scripts start and configure photon at boot. BTW, you start a
photon app by putting it in phapps in the /root/.ph directory.Igor Kovalenko wrote:
I believe if you set USER (or maybe LOGNAME) envar before starting
Photon it will skip phlogin. There is some way to start your app
automatically, but I don’t remember exactly off the top of my head.
Something about ~/.ph file I believe… Another way would be to link
your app to phlogin, lol >
- igor
Bruce Davis wrote:
Unfortunately it is a photon app so that does not seem to work. There
must be a way to remove the login prompt from system startup, does
anyone know how to do it?Markus Loffler wrote:
Put the command to start your app in /etc/rc.d/rc.local if it is not a
photon app
Markus“Bruce Davis” <> bruce.r.davis@boeing.com> > wrote in message
news:> 3B210F36.F7FB4DA8@boeing.com> …
I want my app to run when the computer is turned on, with no login. I
am using photon. Can someone tell me how? Thanks.
I think you have to set HOME as well. I’d check out the /usr/bin/ph
script for any other environment variables you may need to set.
Bruce Davis <bruce.r.davis@boeing.com> wrote:
Thanks, that did the trick - but it had an unexpected consequence.
phapps in /root/.ph does not seem to be run now. The line I put in
rc.local was:export LOGNAME=root
I seem to logged in as root (which I need for my app to run correctly)
because I have the hash prompt in the shell. Any idea why phapps didn’t
run? I can’t just add it to rc.local (I don’t think so anyway) because
I believe some of the commands need to be run when photon loads.Heather Kilgour wrote:
Create a rc.local script file in /etc/rc.d and add ‘export LOGNAME=’.
Make sure to make the file exectubile. This script gets run before photon
is started - it will boot you directly into photon.Heather
Bruce Davis <> bruce.r.davis@boeing.com> > wrote:
Thanks for your reply. Looks like it is the LOGNAME envar according to
the documentation. So my next question is, how do I set that envar so
it will be set before photon starts? I am having trouble figuring out
which scripts start and configure photon at boot. BTW, you start a
photon app by putting it in phapps in the /root/.ph directory.Igor Kovalenko wrote:
I believe if you set USER (or maybe LOGNAME) envar before starting
Photon it will skip phlogin. There is some way to start your app
automatically, but I don’t remember exactly off the top of my head.
Something about ~/.ph file I believe… Another way would be to link
your app to phlogin, lol >
- igor
Bruce Davis wrote:
Unfortunately it is a photon app so that does not seem to work. There
must be a way to remove the login prompt from system startup, does
anyone know how to do it?Markus Loffler wrote:
Put the command to start your app in /etc/rc.d/rc.local if it is not a
photon app
Markus“Bruce Davis” <> bruce.r.davis@boeing.com> > wrote in message
news:> 3B210F36.F7FB4DA8@boeing.com> …
I want my app to run when the computer is turned on, with no login. I
am using photon. Can someone tell me how? Thanks.
Thanks, you do have to set HOME, and PATH as well. Actually it sets a
default path but it is not the same as the path set in a normal login.
Still trying to figure out in which script(s) all the envars are set…
Thanks everyone for your help.
Colin Burgess wrote:
I think you have to set HOME as well. I’d check out the /usr/bin/ph
script for any other environment variables you may need to set.Bruce Davis <> bruce.r.davis@boeing.com> > wrote:
Thanks, that did the trick - but it had an unexpected consequence.
phapps in /root/.ph does not seem to be run now. The line I put in
rc.local was:export LOGNAME=root
I seem to logged in as root (which I need for my app to run correctly)
because I have the hash prompt in the shell. Any idea why phapps didn’t
run? I can’t just add it to rc.local (I don’t think so anyway) because
I believe some of the commands need to be run when photon loads.Heather Kilgour wrote:
Create a rc.local script file in /etc/rc.d and add ‘export LOGNAME=’.
Make sure to make the file exectubile. This script gets run before photon
is started - it will boot you directly into photon.Heather
Bruce Davis <> bruce.r.davis@boeing.com> > wrote:
Thanks for your reply. Looks like it is the LOGNAME envar according to
the documentation. So my next question is, how do I set that envar so
it will be set before photon starts? I am having trouble figuring out
which scripts start and configure photon at boot. BTW, you start a
photon app by putting it in phapps in the /root/.ph directory.Igor Kovalenko wrote:
I believe if you set USER (or maybe LOGNAME) envar before starting
Photon it will skip phlogin. There is some way to start your app
automatically, but I don’t remember exactly off the top of my head.
Something about ~/.ph file I believe… Another way would be to link
your app to phlogin, lol >
- igor
Bruce Davis wrote:
Unfortunately it is a photon app so that does not seem to work. There
must be a way to remove the login prompt from system startup, does
anyone know how to do it?Markus Loffler wrote:
Put the command to start your app in /etc/rc.d/rc.local if it is not a
photon app
Markus“Bruce Davis” <> bruce.r.davis@boeing.com> > wrote in message
news:> 3B210F36.F7FB4DA8@boeing.com> …
I want my app to run when the computer is turned on, with no login. I
am using photon. Can someone tell me how? Thanks.