Hi!
As maintainer of a small distibution called mulimidix i discovered a problem in the shell enviroment. I used automatic login the same way knoppix does, using /bin/bash -login in /etc/inittab. First it seemed that everything was all right but i wondered about a strange behaviour of the more-command: after one page the output stopps. At first i thought this was due to a bad compilation and so i rebuilded the whole distri. But the problem was the same. Comparing the auto-login enviroment with a normal-login enviroment i discovered,that in auto-enviroment the $HOME-variable values / , but /etc/passwd says it should be /root. searching the web i discovered some alternate ways to auto-login after bootup, but all these methods required patching programms or install some non-standard login-progs. Is there a way to emulate the "normal" shell behaviour without patching programms or install special login-progs?
i have no clue to solve this problem in an elegant way, so i ask you the knoppix community. To solve the problem would make knoppix even better than now.

i hope you have some hints about my problem.

Thanks,

Dieter Springer