You can certainly run a shell script redirected from tty1, either from rc.custom.gz or when rebuilding from something out of /etc/inittab, there are some quirks of the terminal connection when you are not running after agetty that I don't fully understant, but it works, look at how the keyboard mapping prompt is done in rc.custom.gz.
-tom On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Alan Dawson wrote: > Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 21:23:02 +0100 > From: Alan Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [tomsrtbt] Automatically root Login > > Hi, Excuse me if this dumb or simple but.. > > I'd like to customise the rtbt disk to automatically login as root on tty1. > This is so I can run some scripts, get some user input, etc. Can anybody point > me to resources or hints on what I'd need to do for this.. or better ways of > doing it? > > > AED > -- > "Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. > Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, > makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the > right idea. " > > > ------------------------------------------------- > E-mail provided by the Burngreave Community Network > http://www.burngreave.net >
