Re: init, pivot_root, chroot, etc ...

2003-12-22 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > ctrl-c probably doesn't work due to the terminal not being set up (wild > guess). Maybe you could make it work with "stty intr ^C" > Basically, it doesn't work because there's no controlling TTY set. Opening a TTY usually sets the controlling TTY, but the linuxrc co

Re: init, pivot_root, chroot, etc ...

2003-12-22 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > ctrl-c probably doesn't work due to the terminal not being set up (wild > guess). Maybe you could make it work with "stty intr ^C" > Basically, it doesn't work because there's no controlling TTY set. Opening a TTY usually sets the controlling TTY, but the linuxrc co

Re: init, pivot_root, chroot, etc ...

2003-12-17 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 11:22, e-bone wrote: > I've tried: > 1 > calling cryptcat in the linuxrc script. this works, but then i can't > enter passwords at the tty ! apparently signals (ctrl-c) cannot be caught in > the linuxrc script either ? i tried a script that catches this signal > then asked fo

Re: init, pivot_root, chroot, etc ...

2003-12-17 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 11:22, e-bone wrote: > I've tried: > 1 > calling cryptcat in the linuxrc script. this works, but then i can't > enter passwords at the tty ! apparently signals (ctrl-c) cannot be caught in > the linuxrc script either ? i tried a script that catches this signal > then asked fo

init, pivot_root, chroot, etc ...

2003-12-16 Thread e-bone
Hi, this question does not pertain specifically to debian-boot, but it deals with things which i think the readers of this list have a particular knowledge of, so here goes: My main root partition is /dev/hda2, and it is encrypted via ppdd. I have a "maintenance"/"fake" root partition at /dev/hda6

init, pivot_root, chroot, etc ...

2003-12-16 Thread e-bone
Hi, this question does not pertain specifically to debian-boot, but it deals with things which i think the readers of this list have a particular knowledge of, so here goes: My main root partition is /dev/hda2, and it is encrypted via ppdd. I have a "maintenance"/"fake" root partition at /dev/hda6