The kiosk-reset utility contributed by Peter Billson is very handy. Here is a script I use on my kiosk (which runs only mozilla) to almost instantly restart mozilla if the user shuts it down. It requires SGI's PERL FAM module (on CPAN) and seems to work well.
Here also is a great URL which explains on to lock down Mozilla preferences (so users can't bypass proxy server): http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166946 (the instructions are at the end). #!/usr/bin/perl ## ------------------------------------------------------------------- ## script to re-start mozilla on kiosks if user closes it. ## ------------------------------------------------------------------- use SGI::FAM; my $fam=new SGI::FAM; my $event; system ("mozilla &"); sleep 3; $fam->monitor("$ENV{'HOME'}/.mozilla/appreg"); while (1) { do { $event=$fam->next_event; if ($event->type =~/^(change)$/){ system ("mozilla &"); } } while $fam->pending; } ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
