[ale] preventing interruption of auto install

Michael Hirsch mdhirsch at gmail.com
Mon Jul 18 15:39:01 EDT 2005


On 7/15/05, lyric hartley <leeslist at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have to do a bunch of remote autoinstalls using yast2. I need to
> make sure that the someone does not try to interrupt the install.
> Currently, I have
> -disabled the abort button.
> -added noshell=1 to the boot options. (however, this does not limit
> viewing the logging done to tty3 and 4)
> -removed the reboot if crl-alt-del is pressed in inittab in the root image
> (however, it will still reboot from tty3 or 4...which leads me to believe my
> change is not doing anything)
> 
> my current remaining issues are that:
> you can kill X with ctrl-alt-backspace and kill the installation

This is an option for the X server.  You can turn it off easily.

> you can reboot with ctrl-alt-del on tty3 and 4

This is also an option--I think it is in fstab.

I don't have my Linux box in from of me, or I'd look them up, but it
they aren't commented out in your file, a quick google should find
answers.

Michael



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