I have been looking at doing that. I will share what I did if and when I put something together.
Moshe ------------------------------ Moshe Katz -- [email protected] -- +1(301)867-3732 On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Steven Sherwood <[email protected]> wrote: > That’s great – thanks for the howto. > > > > I’m wondering if the console could alternatively auto-refresh itself (ie. > on a timer rather than a keypress)? > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Moshe > Katz > *Sent:* Wednesday, December 15, 2010 6:16 PM > > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [pfSense Support] console menu closes when enter pressed > > > > I added the following two lines at line 83 of /etc/rc.initial > > "'") > > ;; > > Now, it should refresh if I press apostrophe, then <enter>. I chose that > key because it is next to the enter key so I can press them both at once. > > I also changed ${opmode} on line 82 to have quotes around it (although I > don't know if this is required to make it work or not). > > > > What I don't like about the 15 option is that it displays the banner twice > in a row and to me it just looks messy. > > > > Moshe > > > ------------------------------ > Moshe Katz > -- [email protected] > -- +1(301)867-3732 > > > > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Steven Sherwood <[email protected]> wrote: > > I noticed this recently too, and I could have sworn that hitting enter used > to make a screen refresh, but I when I log back into a couple of different > 1.2 and 1.2.3 boxes which are still in operation, I see the same result. In > other words, this isn't a new 2.0 behavior unless something changed with my > SSH client of choice, Putty. > > I would like to see a screen refresh for hitting enter as well. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Pingle [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 1:08 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] console menu closes when enter pressed > > 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 > > >
