On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 10:15:17AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 03:11:22AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > > I think this is a good idea. I recently set up a Debian potato system > > to be a web terminal, thus I had to run a startx on boot. However, > > /etc/init.d/rmnologin is by default run at 99, which is bad if I want > > to have stuff happen *after* all other initalization. > > > > My solution was to create /etc/init.d/local: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > run-parts /etc/rc.local > > > > and do: > > update-rc.d -f rmnologin remove > > update-rc.d rmnologin start 98 2 3 4 5 . > > update-rc.d local start 99 2 3 4 5 . > > > > I just plopped my startx script into /etc/rc.local. > > why not just use xdm or wdm and edit the config so that the login window > displays "login as guest with password guest"?
Because the whole point of a web terminal was to make it simple. And I'd rather not advertise the password of a shell account on the box. It's directly connected to the internet. Right now there isn't a way to do more than open and close netscape, and I'd like to keep it that way :) -- Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.verbum.org/levanti PGP Fingerprint: A580 5AA1 0887 2032 7EFB 19F4 9776 6282 C207 843A
