[ale] Kiosk

[David Corbin]

Well, it will also act as a server.  I really don't like that idea,
though it is difficult for me to pin down as to the why....

I guess in part because then I don't have a way to go to REAL single
user mode that is for maintenance/recovery...

Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> 
> Can you set the machine to be single user? or does it have to have net
> access?  I would start the machine single user and then bring up networking
> yourself (via a startup script or something) and load the X app.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of David
> Corbin
> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 12:04 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Kiosk
> 
> I would like one of my systems, upon boot, to "login" as a particular
> user, and run a some specific (X) application.  What's the best way to
> do this?  Should I just whip up a little program that su's and then
> execs what I want, and put it in inittab?  It should function much like
> a Kiosk.
> --
> David Corbin
> dcorbin at machturtle.com
> --
> To unsubscribe: mail majordomo at ale.org with "unsubscribe ale" in message
> body.

-- 
David Corbin 		
dcorbin at machturtle.com
--
To unsubscribe: mail majordomo at ale.org with "unsubscribe ale" in message body.