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From: joer@comm.WANG.COM (Joe Reinhardt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Can I autoboot my xenix application?
Keywords: sco xenix
Message-ID: <1990Mar21.144035.19295@comm.WANG.COM>
Date: 21 Mar 90 14:40:35 GMT
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Organization: Wang Labs, Platform Comms.
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neverisk@tnl.UUCP (neverisky michael) writes:

>I have an SCO Xenix 2.3.2 application which I would like to autoboot
>at power up.  However, it seems that before I ever get a chance to 
>run any shell script I must 1) type RETURN at the boot: prompt 2) enter
>su password or Ctl-D for normal startup and 3) confirm the date!  Can
>all this nonsense be cicumvented?

I believe that Xenix will "autoboot" -- when the "boot:" prompt comes up
and a <CR> is not received after a certain amount of time (like 60 seconds?)
the system boots up automatically.  No need to enter the <CTRL-D> or the 
time.

You can put your local startup stuff in one of the startup
scripts in rc.d.

Joe Reinhardt
joer@comm.wang.com