On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Philip Rowlands wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Todd Chilson wrote: > > > I have a Kickstart script that prompts for user input in the %post > >section. However, I have to ask for user input. So, it would look > >something like: > >echo "Enter blast host number (1-34, etc.): " > >read BLNUM > > However, when I enter a number and press enter nothing happens. The > >other interesting thing is that I have to hit ctrl+alt+f2 in order to > >see the user prompt in the first place. > > Have you set the file descriptors at all? I've found the following lines > are necessary at the top of the %post section in order to see stdout. > > exec > /dev/console 2>&1 #send stdout and stderr to console > TERM=dumb #reset terminal to lose staircase effect > reset > clear isn't there a "chvt" command that's used for something like this? rday
