Hi, Anton Zinoviev <an...@lml.bas.bg> (09/03/2011): > [Please send CC to me if you reply.]
done. > I hope the next version of console-setup will have some preliminary > support for FreeBSD kernel. But I have some questions. \o/ > 1. How can I detect in a shell script what kernel is in use (Linux > or FreeBSD). This code should work both in normal Debian > installation and in the environment of Debian installer. uname might be sufficient in this case? Just checked in my squeeze d-i images, available on both linux and kfreebsd. > 2. Is it dangerous to configure the console while X is running? I'm not sure what could happen. Do you have anything specific in mind? > Is it possible to detect reliably whether a script executes on the > console or in X Window? For Linux I've used a code like this: > > case `readlink /proc/self/fd/2` in > /dev/tty[0-9]*|/dev/vc/[0-9]*|/dev/console) > ;; > *) > echo We are not on the Linux console, the console is left > unconfigured. > exit 0 > ;; > esac (I think I've mentioned it can't work on GNU/kFreeBSD, there's no fd/ directory in the linprocfs compatiblity layer.) > 3. I suppose UTF-8 is not supported? I think it wasn't ready for squeeze, but got fixed in the meanwhile, or will be soon. But.
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