On 12/15/2010 12:27 PM, Moshe Katz wrote: > I noticed that if I just hit enter on the pfSense console without typing > an option first, it exits the console. If I am on ssh, it closes the > connection and if I am on the local terminal, where I have it set to > prompt for a password, it asks the password again. > > Since option 0 can be used to do the same thing and there are times that > I would like to refresh the console (to re-display the connection status > at the top), I am wondering why it is set up to exit if no input is given? > One of my development boxes gets a new IP address regularly and I like > to refresh the console to see when the address has been successfully > acquired. The way it is now, I have to log in again and again or go > into another option, such as the shell, and then out of it again. > > I know where to modify this myself in /etc/rc.initial but before I do > so, I am curious as to the reason it works this way.
I don't recall the specifics on why it was done that way, but you could use hidden menu option 15 to redisplay the banner section of the console menu. (Not sure why that's hidden, except perhaps to save space on the menu.) That, or hit 8 to drop to a shell and then exit (or ctrl-d) to go back to the menu. Jim --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
