On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 08:47, Crispin Wellington wrote: > On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 21:30, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 08:44:06PM +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: > > > > > Have a script that starts X for a certain user and begins galeon. Run > > > this as a respawn process under /etc/inittab. Make a certain runlevel be > > > kiosk mode (the default). Make other run levels the admin mode (normal > > > logins etc). > > > > Thanks a lot for your prompt answer! It sounds pretty much like what I > > want. I have tried to follow your advice and came across one or two > > little issues. > > > > > /etc/inittab line something like > > > > > ki:2:respawn:su -c /usr/local/bin/runkiosk kioskuser > > > > I have replaced the line: > > > > l2:2:wait:/etc/init.d/rc 2 > > leave the standard rc scripts in there. Make sure that xdm/gdm/kdm is > not started via symlinks from /etc/rc2.d. Add the respawn in as an extra > runlevel 2 respawn. > > Heck, come to think of it, you could make an /etc/init.d/kiosk script > that starts the kiosk, and stick it at the end of the rc2 startup. > > > in the inittab with your suggestion, in the hope that would do the > > required. > > > > > /usr/local/bin/runkiosk could basically just startx, and let kioskusers > > > .Xsession file do the rest. > > > > Also I have made this, only containing 'startx'. > > Now if I reboot, I see no X, but a message repeating: > > > > X: user not authorised to run the X server, aborting. > > The su -c command should change to a acceptable user. Interesting error. > If you change su -c /usr/local/bin/runkiosk kioskuser to su -c > /usr/local/bin/runkiosk root, does it work? (not that thats a solution, > just helps in locating the problem) > > > And a few more lines. I think I understand what is happening, but am not > > too sure how to fix it. > > > > > Perhaps try running it without any WM at all. Use -geometry to make > > > galeon fullscreen. > > > > That is something I would like to experiment with, but am not able to > > picture how to do it. The 'alternatives' system allows me to switch > > between IceWM and TWM, but not do without at all. > > Your .Xsession would be just 'galeon -geometry 1024x768+0+0'. No window > manager at all. > > > > > - Provide some means for a user to safely shut down the system prior > > > > to power-down (preferably from the GUI) > > > > > Have the whole system use ext3. Have no shutdown at all (just switch it > > > off like a stereo) > > > > That would be brilliant. But again (sorry about my ignorance) I do not > > really now how to get there. I seem to recall that the default install > > (Woody and upgrade to Sid right after) does not have ext3 support. > > Suppose a kernel rebuild would be required? Also, I have two partitions, > > large root and a small boot (and swap also). I think I have read > > sometime that /boot needed to be ext2... Further, is there a command for > > converting an existing ext2 -> 3, or do I need to make a new > > installation. > > If your kernel has ext3 support built in, use tune2fs to convert to > ext3. /boot can be ext3 aswell. > > Crispin >
I did this just last month. What I did was create a user, guest, with password guest. Editted the /etc/issue file to say something like "Log on as 'guest' with password 'guest'". This way, when the machine is powered up, they see a text screen with instructions. The .xinitrc for guest has lines in it like so: icewm & while ; do galeon; done The .bashrc for guest has a line at the bottom: startx Thus, when the guest logs in, it starts X, and icewm is started, and galeon is started. If they quit Galeon, it starts right back up. If they quit X (either via menus or Ctrl-Alt-Backspace), they see the instructions for logging in. I originally tried to get startx to work as a respawned process directly from /etc/inittab, but I ran into problems similar to what you're experiencing. Decided to solve that in the future, and do quick&dirty for now. I gave up on not having a window manager, because when new windows pop up (as many web sites are wont to do), you can't move/resize/close them easily. I used icepref to turn off the taskbar, although you can still get the menus by right-clicking on the desktop. You can create menu entries and scripts to do a graceful shutdown/restart, but I didn't bother, because, well, why? Except for power outages, Linux runs forever. And if X hangs, Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to the rescue (although some local overseer of the kiosk needs to be made aware of the basics of solving these issues). It's not a perfect solution, but like I said, it's quick and dirty. Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
