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Subject: Re: Writing recipe for changing /etc/profile
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On 2012-01-28 03:34, Sathishkumar Duraisamy wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Gary Thomas<gary@mlbassoc.com>  wrote:
>> 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
>
> Thanks Gray Thomas, it works.

Glad to help.

n.b. I am gray (haired), but my name is Gary :-)

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