How to start automatically a script after that the knoppix user is logged on.

[Marietto]

Hello to everyone,

I'm trying to make a customized version of KNOPPIX 6.2 that should run totally in RAM.
The customizations I need to do are very few :

1) automount in write mode the first two NTFS/FAT32 partitions of the first hard disk
2) mount the CD/ROM after the default user (knoppix) or (root ?) is logged on
3) start automatically a session of DOSEMU after that the knoppix user is logged on

This is what I did while I was in chroot :

apt-get install dosemu

cd /mnt
mkdir cdrom
mkdir hda1
mkdir hda2
mkdir sda1
mkdir sda2

cd /home/knoppix/.dosemu/drives/c

nano autoexec.bat

lredir e: linux\fs/mnt/cdrom c
lredir f: linux\fs/mnt/hda1
lredir g: linux\fs/mnt/hda2
lredir h: linux\fs/mnt/sda1
lredir i: linux\fs/mnt/sda2

nano /home/knoppix/.bash_profile

#!/bin/sh
clear
read -p "Insert your Windows installation disk and press a key to continue" disco
sudo mount -t auto /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
dosemu

mv /etc/skel /etc/skel-old
mv /home/knoppix /etc/skel
chown root:root -R /etc/skel

cp -Rp /etc/skel /home/knoppix
chown knoppix:knoppix -R /home/knoppix

When Knoppix starts the script I put in /home/knoppix/.bash_profile is not executed. Why ?
The folder /home/knoppix is empty. Instead,I have everything on /etc/skel/,like the .dosemu folder and the .bash_profile script. I would like that it is placed on /home/knoppix and that it is executed when the knoppix starts. Thanks.

[utu]

I'm trying to make a customized version of KNOPPIX 6.2 that should run totally in RAM.

It would help me if you'd expand this more.

An obvious question is: have you considered the 'toram' cheatcode?

[Marietto]

Yes,I will use this option,but the problem now is that I don't know how to start automatically the script inside .bash_profile when the Knoppix has been loaded in Ram

[utu]

You can start any program at the end of the boot process
via a script in /etc/rc.local.

Does that help?

[Marietto]

/etc/rc.local

SERVICES="cups"

for i in $SERVICES; do
[ -x /etc/init.d/"$i" ] && /etc/init.d/"$i" start >/dev/null 2>&1
done

/etc/skel/script.sh

exit o


/etc/skel/script.sh

#!/bin/sh
clear
read -p "Insert your Windows installation disk and press a key to continue" disco
sudo mount -t auto /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
dosemu

is this right ?

[utu]

I don't know what you want to achieve.

I wonder if you meant exit 0 as in exit zero, not o.

Try it and find out.

[utu]

For openers, /etc/rc.local is directory.
Define your shell scripts appropriately and save them there.
They get executed in the order presented in the directory.

You have here a melange of things (in post #5)
that would surprise me if it did anything useful as it stands.
Perhaps 'try it and find out' is a bit premature.

In regards to I/O re-direction, of any sort, I can't help you.

I think you will get more help from some quarter if you
define in words, more than a short sentence just what you hope to achieve.

[utu]

post #7 got past me with the darn ten minute edit rule

wrong

/etc/rc.local is an executable script itself.
your can reference other scripts in it.

Best to keep things small and separate.

Remainder of my post #7 about right, I think.

[Marietto]

I copied script.sh inside /etc/

#!/bin/sh

clear
read -p "Insert your Windows installation disk and press a key to continue" disco
sudo mount -t auto /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
dosemu

I call it inside the /etc/rc.local file :

rc.local

....
/etc/script.sh

I made it executable,with chmod +x script.sh

and at the end I re-booted Knoppix with runlevel 2,but when it has finished to be loaded in memory,the script.sh is not started.

[mecho]

Since you made it executable it is better to remove the .sh extension and place your script in /usr/sbin, then make a line in /etc/rc.local
Make sure again it is chmod 755

rc.local is the last script executed at every runlevel 2,3,4 and 5