Loading application after init

Put it /etc/inittab !

I don't want any login prompt. Then comment it out of /etc/inittab

Board can drop into single user mode, no problem. But

Which is the way to go? RTFM init/inittab

Simply: Just run your program instead of sulogin in init tty1::respawn:/bin/yourprog

You really should have read the manual.

You want to be confident that the program you are running is solid - especially if you are still developing. Having a crashing program that continually respawns just makes things more difficult.

The other option is to launch a script from init. I guess it depends how complex your system is and how physically secure you want it to be.

Cheers Marc

A few options :

- edit /etc/init.d/rcS and run the program you wish.

- edit /etc/inittab and run your application at the appropriate runlevel.

use init=/bin/myinit as a kernel option

then write a script called myinit, which brings up the board the way you want and then runs your program.

Before posting here I had already tried the above initab thing. Didn't work. For some reasons busybox's sulogin was being run. Sorry didn't reply to any of the earlier posts, because all other posts were preaching. I am used to usenet now. I understand when to post and I also understand 10% people will try to preach. You can avoid them :) Anyways, replacing sulogin didn't seem to work. I will have to figure out why it happens. Because I had a similar problem. The tftp program in busybox wasn't good enough. So I wrote a small tftp program and am using it now. I copied that in /usr/local/bin where the symlink to tftp of busybox was lysing in the board. But still when I simply type tftp the busybox's tftp starts. To run my binary I have to give full path.

--Himanshu