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  From: Matthew Moyle-Croft <mmc@mmc.com.au>
  To  : Shirley Chang <pear_chang@yahoo.com.hk>
  Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 17:37:05 +0930 (CST)

Re: Auto start a application

> Hi, I have write a program, it has a simple interface. I want to auto
> start it while my system boot up. I wrote a script program at
> /etc/rc.d/init.d and also make a symbolic link to it at /etc/rc.d/rc5.d,
> when the system starts, it can load my program, but it hold the screen at
> the interface of my program, don't continue to login the system..what is
> the problem? Can anyone help me?  Shirley

Yeah,
Write a shell script to startup your application and then run it in the 
background so:

#!/bin/sh
/path/to/my/application &



> 
> Best Regards
> Shirley

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