Re: How to start up a remote session

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Simon Bennett (simonb++at++wormald.com.au)
Tue, 1 Oct 1996 21:40:20 +1010 (EST)

On Tue, 25 Oct 1994, Lew Hitchner wrote:
> Allan Schaffer replied:
> >> On Oct 25, 6:04pm, Richard Gallery wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I am able to start my Performer application up on my Onyx from an
> >> > Indigo, using rsh to start up the Performer application. The problem
> >> > with this is that I still have to log onto the Onyx to start up a
> >> > window server on it before it will accept my Performer application.
> >> > So what I need to be able to do is remotely start up a window server
> >> > on the Onyx from my Indigo.
> >> You should be able to accomplish the same thing by using the
> >> "autologin" feature. Write a script that will create an
> >> /etc/autologin file containing the username to be logged in, touch
> >> /etc/autologin.on, and restart the X server (or perhaps xdm as well).
> >> man autologin for all the details.
> >> Allan

Does this still hold under 6.2? We're having problems running a Performer
application on our 3-pipe Onyx RE^2 when nobody is logged onto the
console. clogin is not running.

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