[PLUG] Auto start HTOP in tty.

Chuck Hast wchast at gmail.com
Mon Aug 31 15:23:14 UTC 2020


Oh yeah, I did NOT do the Hollywood thing...

On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 10:19 AM Chuck Hast <wchast at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you guys, that did it. every other search sent me down
> paths to deal with the GUI type terminal... Now I have HTOP
> but it is on tty7 where I wanted it in the first place. Just swapped
> the 1 for a 7 and off it went.
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 8:10 AM David Bridges <david at kisbdnb.info> wrote:
>
>> The very first hit for me when searching for the terms below on
>> duckduckgo more than likely has the information you need since it has
>> information for Ubuntu and also information for systems using init or
>> systemd.
>>
>> start htop on tty on boot
>>
>> As with most things there are more than one way to do this.
>>
>> On Sun, 2020-08-30 at 22:31 -0500, Chuck Hast wrote:
>> > 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
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>

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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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