From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bud Rogers Subject: Re: Run app on login Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 21:06:58 -0600 Message-ID: <200411132106.58898.budr@netride.net> References: <620c9057041113184754867a6d@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <620c9057041113184754867a6d@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Linux-hams List On Saturday 13 November 2004 20:47, Chuck Hast wrote: > Folks, > I am trying to figure out how to have a particular application start > up when a user logs in with a specified login. > Example, > User logs in with "radio" password "hamradio" > Instead of bringing up a prompt, I want a login of radio to start up > a special application. I am sure that Linux can do it, just not quite > sure how to do so. Anything you put in a user's .bashrc or .bash_profile will be run whenever that user logs in. You can have it set up things in your environment, or run certain commands. Man bash will give you the details. HTH 73 -- Bud Rogers KD5SZ EM05vb