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Subject: Re: Writing recipe for changing /etc/profile
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On 2012-01-28 02:10, Sathishkumar Duraisamy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have some doubts in launching my application while booting. That is,
> once  my device is powered on,  should land in my application. I found
> that by adding some scripts to /etc/profile and enabled auto login, it
> does.
>
> Is there a better way to do same? And if the current method is
> sufficient, then how do I add patch to change /etc/profile file, or
> which recipe gives this file so that I can the in my yocto layer.
>

Add your scripts to /etc/profile.d

There are a few examples in the source tree, e.g.
   meta/recipes-graphics/tslib/tslib_1.0.bb

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