> > 1) Upon boot, automatically log in as 'kiosk' user and issue the 'startx' > > command. This is easy using gdm but I don't really want to use a window > > manager at all: is there a way to do it before x is launched? > > Well, startx is a shell script, you might be able to edit it and execute > it as the last item in /etc/init.d > Hi Matt!
You could even add a line to /etc/inittab that calls startx, and set the desired action to "respawn"; that way the X server will be restarted when somebody manages to kill it. By the way, you should create a short wrapper around startx that drops the root privileges... I'm not quite sure, but #!/bin/sh su kiosk -c /usr/bin/X11/startx should probably do the trick. Regarding your 2nd question: A simple entry into /etc/crontab should be sufficient: 0 4 * * * root /sbin/reboot Further refinement (warning any users that are still logged on... ;-)) is of course possible. HTH, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz Erich-K�stner-Str. 39 12619 Berlin 0174 / 33 44 22 5 030 / 240 370 81 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
