Re: Deciding what to install and how to set up a system

[Travis Siegel <tsiegel@softcon.com>]

To answer just a few of your questions.
To run programs at boot time with linux, you would simply place the
desired commands in the startup scripts.  (rc.local on a slackware system)
This way you can run any commands you wish, and using su -c, you can run
them as any user.  I do this for all of my mud users when my system boots.  

As for email, this too is easily handled.  You could simply set up your
procmail scripts same as you have them on your unix host on the network.
To retrieve your mail, you could use any number of programs that can
retrieve pop/imap mail from a remote host.  The package I use is one
called simply get-mail.  It's at sunsite.unc.edu in the /pub/linux/mail
(or something similar) directory, and works quite well.  

Also, using the .profile (assuming you're using bash) you can have any
commands you wish executed when you log in as any user.
Hope this helps.  I'm not familiar with x, so deliberately did not answer
any questions on that topic.

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