[mythtv-users] Auto-start mythfrontend

[Preston Crow]

I figured out a very simple way of auto-starting the frontend.

Ideally, we want it to restart automatically if it dies, and that's
exactly the sort of thing that init is there for.  So I put the
following in my /etc/inittab:

c7:45:respawn:/bin/su mythtv -l -c /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit
/usr/bin/mythfrontend

(That's one line, though it's broken up by my mailer.)

The only other change was changing the default runlevel from 3 to 4 near
the top of the same file.  I found that I needed the '-l' option to get
my path set up correctly.  By passing a parameter to xinit, it ignores
the .xinitrc file, so you don't even need to set that up (or it can be
different for a manual login).

--PC