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Operating Systems Linux Fedora Xrandr on startup - Fedora 19, VMWare Fusion Post 302900125 by bakunin on Sunday 4th of May 2014 09:25:42 PM
Old 05-04-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by jaykayen
I've tried placing the following script in /etc/init.d/ :

Code:
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/bin/xrandr --output Virtual1 --mode 1680x1050 --rate 60

but this doesn't do anything. The file is named "screenres" and has permissions "-rwxr-xr-x".
The problem is: nobody tells anybody to run that script at startup. I suggest you read the manpages of regarding "runlevels" and "init" to get a better understanding about how the startup process of a *ix-system works (notice that there are 2 fundamental layouts, "SysV" and "BSD").

To solve your problem: put (a link to) the script into "/etc/rcN.d", and name it Snn where "nn" is a two-digit number and "N" is the number of the runlevel whichs start you want to trigger the script. Or you can write a configuration file for init and place it in "/etc/init.d". Read the man page for init(5) to find out which format this has to be.

With Fedora/CentOS/RedHat you can also use the "chkconfig" utility to automatically place start/stop-scripts for arbitrary services into the various rc-directories. In this case you would have to change your script to accept "start", "stop" and "status" as parameters and create a pseudo-service from it.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
Last edited by bakunin; 05-04-2014 at 10:32 PM..
 

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service

SERVICE(8)						      System Manager's Manual							SERVICE(8)

NAME

       service - run a System V init script

SYNOPSIS

       service SCRIPT COMMAND [OPTIONS]

       service --status-all

       service --help | -h | --version

DESCRIPTION

       service	runs  a System V init script or systemd unit in as predictable an environment as possible, removing most environment variables and
       with the current working directory set to /.

       The SCRIPT parameter specifies a System V init script, located in /etc/init.d/SCRIPT, or the name of a systemd unit.  The  existence  of  a
       systemd unit of the same name as a script in /etc/init.d will cause the unit to take precedence over the init.d script.	The supported val-
       ues of COMMAND depend on the invoked script. service passes COMMAND  and OPTIONS to the init script unmodified. For systemd  units,  start,
       stop, status, and reload are passed through to their systemctl/initctl equivalents.

       All scripts should support at least the start and stop commands.  As a special case, if COMMAND is --full-restart, the script is run twice,
       first with the stop command, then with the start command.

       service --status-all runs all init scripts, in alphabetical order, with the status command. The status is [ + ] for running services, [ - ]
       for stopped services and [ ? ] for services without a status command.  This option only calls status for sysvinit jobs.

EXIT CODES

       service calls the init script and returns the status returned by it.

FILES

       /etc/init.d
	      The directory containing System V init scripts.

       /{lib,run,etc}/systemd/system
	      The directories containing systemd units.

ENVIRONMENT

       LANG,  LANGUAGE,  LC_CTYPE, LC_NUMERIC, LC_TIME, LC_COLLATE, LC_MONETARY, LC_MESSAGES, LC_PAPER, LC_NAME, LC_ADDRESS, LC_TELEPHONE, LC_MEA-
       SUREMENT, LC_IDENTIFICATION, LC_ALL, TERM, PATH
	      The only environment variables passed to the init scripts.

SEE ALSO

       /etc/init.d/skeleton
       update-rc.d(8)
       init(8)
       invoke-rc.d(8)
       systemctl(1)

AUTHOR

       Miloslav Trmac <mitr@redhat.com>, Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>

       Licence: GNU Public Licence v2 (GPLv2)

COPYRIGHT

       2006 Red Hat, Inc.,  Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>

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