I wish to run some commands at boot, mount some file systems, execute some commands (shell scripts), open a few terminal windows, and bring up a few apps, all as the super user. I could use a pointer to where I can find out how to do this in the Fedora 17 platform. Yes I am a novice. Please help
First, Fedora 17 is long past its End of Life; you'd be much better using either F18 or, even better, 19, because it will still be supported after F20 comes out.
Second, all partitions listed in /etc/fstab that don't include noauto get mounted as part of boot, so that you don't have to do it yourself. Third, you can't open terminal windows until X is running, which doesn't happen until you've logged in, and the same goes for any apps that need a GUI. If you want any apps running that don't require X, and aren't automatically started by systemctl, you can always create a shell script, make it executable and include it in /etc/rc.local. Then, you need to make sure that rc-local.service is active so that your script gets run at boot.
Asked: 2013-12-06 10:39:01 -0600
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Last updated: Dec 06 '13
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