Starting up mldonkey on bootup...

[Lord Kenneth]

How can I have it so mldonkey starts up on bootup without putting it in the rc.local file? If I do that, then scripts after rc.local can't initialize and I'm basically screwed out of the operating system if X can't load for whatever reason.

[fissy]

if you use gnome, you can add it to your default session, look around the gnome settings in preferences:///

[Lord Kenneth]

With the way mldonkey works, it prevents all other scripts from initializing after it because that's how it stays on. If I do that the splash stays on the screen.

[aRTee]

How did you put it in rc.local?

If you do it with

sudo -u [yourusername] mldonkey &

or something like that, it should work nicely.

[Lord Kenneth]

How did you put it in rc.local?

If you do it with

sudo -u [yourusername] mldonkey &

or something like that, it should work nicely.

I bet that's it, thanks!

[Lord Kenneth]

Uh-oh, it's not working.

 

For example, when I try it normally in console:

 

[root@localhost kenny]# sudo -u mldonkey /var/lib/mldonkey/Desktop/mldonkey-2-5-12/mlnet
Fatal error: exception Unix.Unix_error(1, "mkdir", "/root/.mldonkey")

[aRTee]

Can you not make a startup script in your

/home/mldonkey/bin

that just performs the right commands?

And then have that script executed by root with sudo?