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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Can I autoboot my xenix application?
Keywords: sco xenix
Message-ID: <267@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 90 20:03:21 GMT
References: <260@tnl.UUCP> <1990Mar21.144035.19295@comm.WANG.COM>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
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Organization: Wimsey Associates
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In article <1990Mar21.144035.19295@comm.WANG.COM> joer@comm.WANG.COM (Joe Reinhardt) writes:
>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.

If it times out at the boot: prompt Xenix will add the string "auto" to the
string contained in "DEFBOOTSTR" from /etc/default/boot. This tells the
startup routines that the system is in "auto-boot" mode and not to prompt
for the system maintenance mode.

I also put "auto" into DEFBOOTSTR in /etc/default/boot:

	DEFBOOTSTR=hd(40)xenix auto

This tells Xenix to boot directly to multi-user mode without prompting for
maintenance mode when you hit <cr>. If you *really* do want to go into
maintenance mode just enter:

	xenix <cr>

You can also do the following to eliminate the annoying call to asktime in
/etc/rc.d/0/sysinit:

      # set system clock
      eval /etc/asktime $AUTOFLAG $AUTOBOOT <<EOF
      EOF
      echo

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