Autostart pipd8i

[electron greg]

I'm a newbie and I've got my system booting directly into a CLI. However, I still need to type "pidp8i" to get into the PDP-8.

I've experimented with adding @reboot /home/pi/pipd8i to crontab but it still doesn't autostart pidp8i.

I'm sure I'm missing something VERY simple here.

[electron greg]

Edit...

I also tried adding the path and filename to /etc/rc.local but this script is refusing to execute during boot.

[R Clark]

I don't know about your system, but my pidp-8 software is located in /opt/pidp8i .  

So to run the application, the path would be /opt/pidp8i/bin/pidp8i.

The pidp8 should always autoboot given the switch settings . For example if set to 0, then will boot into os-8.

Now if you just want to run the pidp8i program when you pull up a cli (whether using ssh to get into system, or via the gui), then there is a file called .bashrc in the home/<your username> folder.

$ nano .bashrc

goto the bottom of the file and add the line: /opt/pidp8i/bin/pidp8i

save it by  ^X 

then Y <enter>

exit from cli, and restart it. You should be in the pidp8. to exit that is ^A d  and back to prompt.

Hope that helps

[electron greg]

That works! Thank you so much.

Greg