[PLUG] Auto start HTOP in tty.

[Chuck Hast]

Well went against the wall on that one. No inittab... Shows
you how much I have looked there lately.

Not sure now where to do the work on the console, has
to be in there.

On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 9:43 PM Chuck Hast <wchast at gmail.com> wrote:

> OK, I will go through all of it, has been a long time, did that
> sort of thing when we set up amateur radio packet switches,
> had a screen that brought up the switch info. That has been
> a LOT of years ago. moved to SW WA in 2012, I think I did
> the last packet radio sw setup back 3-4 years before that.
>
> Yes, it is Ubuntu server and it is systemd... I will look for the
> config file.
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 2:47 PM King Beowulf <kingbeowulf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 8/30/20 8:10 AM, Chuck Hast wrote:
>> > That finished nailing it. I am going to work on it this afternoon, but
>> > that data brought it all back. Funny, my searches all brought up
>> > doing this in a terminal screen in the GUI, command line only gets
>> > no respect...
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 3:20 AM Tom <tgrom.automail at nuegia.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Fri, 28 Aug 2020 18:41:20 -0500
>> >> Chuck Hast <wchast at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> There that brought a bunch of stuff back (old sux) and I
>> >>> started seeing light flashes, as I knew I had done it in the
>> >>> past but just could not remember how.
>> >>>
>> >>> This is a server box so there is no X on it.  I will take a
>> >>> look at screen/tmux, and see how that does.  Thank you
>> >>> very much.
>> >>>
>> >> Hi there. Just place where you see /sbin/agetty in /etc/inittab with
>> >> the path to the program you want to launch instead. like /usr/bin/top
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>>
>> Be aware you will need more that just replacing agetty command in
>> inittab.  If you do not and stdout and stdin redirects, you will not
>> have keyboard functionality. See my original post to this thread.
>>
>> -Ed
>>
>>
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>
> Chuck Hast  -- KP4DJT --
> I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
> Ph 4:13 KJV
> Todo lo puedo en Cristo que me fortalece.
> Fil 4:13 RVR1960
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Chuck Hast  -- KP4DJT --
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Ph 4:13 KJV
Todo lo puedo en Cristo que me fortalece.
Fil 4:13 RVR1960