Unstoppable

[sn0wflake]

baldyeti: Your Bash script works like a charm Thank you for introducing me to Bash.

[Dave_Bechtel]

--Geez, this guy is a newb and somebody is pointing him to C? (shudder)

--REAL men put this kind of thing in inittab.

o Edit /etc/inittab as root

o Look for " id:5:initdefault: " - the 5 is your default runlevel

--Add a line (further down, after the /sbin/getty lines) saying something like:
" rd:5:respawn:/usr/X11R6/bin/rdesktop -OPTIONS"

--Re-init: ' kill -hup 1 ' == Tells init to re-read inittab

--This fulfills all requirements. It will run the script on boot and respawn it if it gets killed. See ' man inittab ' for more details.

--HOWEVER... Since it's dealing with X, I'd stick to baldyeti's script since it's already working for you. Consider this as an example for future reference. (I don't think you want to run rdesktop as root anyway, altho there are ways to get around this.)

--Anyhow, to run baldyeti's script every time on boot: Example, it lives in /usr/local/bin/baldyeti:

o ' cd /etc/rc5.d ' == This is where the scripts for runlevel 5 get run

o ' ln /usr/local/bin/baldyeti S98baldyeti -sfn ' == Make symbolic link to start the prog near end of boot process (WNG: I haven't tested this, as I've never used rdesktop.)

o If you do an ' ls -l ' now you should have:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jun 28 23:04 /etc/rc5.d/S98baldyeti -> /usr/local/bin/baldyeti

( Side note - every time I see baldyeti's nick in teh forum I have to smile -- it reminds me of http://www.northpolesantaclaus.com/heat_miser.htm )

baldyeti: Your Bash script works like a charm Thank you for introducing me to Bash.

[sn0wflake]

My kiosk finally works! C looked like overkill for such a simple task and why not harvest some internal Linux power like Bash or inittab I'll definitely try to get the inittab example to work because loading KDE seems redundant and creates more problems in this case.
Now all I have is some tweaking problems that should be very easy for you Guru's:

1) When booting I get a LILO boot screen (me thinks) where I can select which OS to load. Can I disable that or set the timeout to 0?
2) When loading Linux I get an annoying message regarding selection of screen mode (the screen is also f**ked up in KDE but I'll save that for another posting). How can I define the screen mode?
3) How do I change the network name from the default Linux/Samba name?

PS: rdesktop in KDE is not run as root. Even a noob knows that would be silly

[sn0wflake]

PS: PS: Ill be Ghosting 20 PC's that, fortunately, are identical. But how would Linux react when being Ghosted to a different PC?

[L2Cache]

>1) When booting I get a LILO boot screen (me thinks) where I can select which OS to load. Can I disable that or set the timeout to 0?

As root, edit /etc/lilo.conf and then run: /sbin/lilo

For example, if the first part looks like:
prompt
timeout=50
default=Knoppix
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
message=/boot/message
lba32

comment out the prompt and timeout lines. If there is a vga=ask line, comment out that one too.

[Dave_Bechtel]

--In LILO, set ' vga=normal ' to avoid the extra prompt.

--Also set "DELAY=10" to bring the boot-time delay down to 1 second. It will still give you enough time to hit something if you need to enter extra kernel parms on an ad-hoc basis.

--Duplicating the install to different machines should work OK (test *ONE* dupe machine 1st!!) as long as they have different network addresses and machine names. Check /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts.

--For a kiosk, you should also disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace in the X server so they can't kill it, and disable Ctrl-Alt-Del in /etc/inittab so they can't shut the box down.

--Some googles:
http://librenix.com/?inode=1202
http://security.linux.com/howtos/Kiosk-HOWTO-3.shtml == (Outdated)
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6202

My kiosk finally works! C looked like overkill for such a simple task and why not harvest some internal Linux power like Bash or inittab I'll definitely try to get the inittab example to work because loading KDE seems redundant and creates more problems in this case.
Now all I have is some tweaking problems that should be very easy for you Guru's:

1) When booting I get a LILO boot screen (me thinks) where I can select which OS to load. Can I disable that or set the timeout to 0?
2) When loading Linux I get an annoying message regarding selection of screen mode (the screen is also f**ked up in KDE but I'll save that for another posting). How can I define the screen mode?
3) How do I change the network name from the default Linux/Samba name?

PS: rdesktop in KDE is not run as root. Even a noob knows that would be silly