On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Chan, Dominic wrote: > What is openvt? Ideally, I would need to either logon in automatically > on virtual console or a bash shell so I could see the actual output of > the script oh, come on man openvt > > dwc > > -----Original Message----- > From: John [mailto:red@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 9:37 PM > To: anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Run once with autologon > > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Chan, Dominic wrote: > > > Is there a way to for RedHat install to embed a script during install > > that will get kick off after its first reboot? The problem here is > that > > I would like to have the system autologon to a virtual console as root > > before it execute the script. The script is interactive. It displays > > few option for the user to choice from when it first executed, and > > provide feedback on what it is doing during the entire process. > > > Put it in /etc/init.d, maybe as example > Make it look like the others there, with respect to the chkconfig > line(s). Don't worry too much about everything else. Choose a sequence > number to get it run when you think it should, for example, before or > after networking is enabled. > > On successful completion, it uses "chkconfig example off" so it doesn't > run again. > > If it's an rpm, it can rpm --erase itself then too. > > You can use openvt to attach it to a vc, or simply use file redirection. > I prefer the first. > > > -- Please, reply only to the list. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
