[Menai-LUG] Auto startup task

[Kevin Donnelly]

Hi David

On Wednesday 21 May 2003 1:46 am, David Goadby wrote:
> I am using a surplus 2 line by 16 character display. The unit is plugged
> into the parallel port and +5v is stolen from the joystick port. A couple
> of 10K pull-ups completes the hardware. I installed it in a milled out
> block of aluminium which is screwed to the front panel.
>
> The device (in my case /dev/lcd) is treated like a VT52 you can do things
> like echo hello > /dev/lcd . In my unattended system there is no keyboard
> or display so it is the only way I know what is going on without using my
> laptop via telnet. I am experimenting with a simple UI using the LCD and
> some buttons. The buttons are connected to the joystick port and you can
> have 4.
>
> I will report which start-up method(s) worked when I have tried all of the
> suggestions.

Very interesting.

It just occurred to me that you could also put something in the modules.conf 
file, eg:

post-install <some module or other that you know will be loaded> <path/name of 
script>

Kevin