Info Below: On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 12:16 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 17:32 +0200, Jacobo221 wrote: > > BTW, I'm still here, so if someone knows about a way to acomplish my > > desire... ;-) > > [greg@king:~]$ apt-cache show rungetty > Package: rungetty > Priority: optional > Section: admin > Installed-Size: 76 > Maintainer: Gerfried Fuchs <alfie@debian.org> > Architecture: i386 > Version: 1.2-8 > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4) > Filename: pool/main/r/rungetty/rungetty_1.2-8_i386.deb > Size: 13138 > MD5sum: b260c2af777fe3fd73fb22a648853565 > Description: minimal console getty that can run any process > rungetty might be the getty you were looking for. It is able to run any > program, not just login. If a different program than login is used it usually > is run as nobody:nogroup, or the user/group specified on the commandline. > rungetty can even be configured to autologin, under certain circumstances. > See the manual page for more information. > . > You have to change some lines in /etc/inittab for having any effect after > installing the package. rungetty is based on mingetty and therefore not > suitable for serial use. > > Seems somewhat reasonable. Though never having used it, seems to be > based on what Stefan suggested earlier, but you have the ability to > control the user and so on, which would seem for me to be able to pickup > the environment as well. All of a sudden I had a need for the same thing, The owner want a "realtime" dedicated monitor of our firewall and networking and other machines on the network. But I didn't have a horsepower machine. So I setup a P2-400 with 256MB of ram and using a framebuffer setup I got a 27" s-video TV to display the rotating web-pages of our monitoring setup. I had it login as a dedicated user first, I checked out all things made a few tweaks to the .profile... voila. Works just fine with a w3m-img on frame-buffer. He loves it. So I have to finger out a few more for him to monitor production after we move. rungetty seems to do everything I need it to do. Hopefully it will for you. -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net The technology that is Stronger, better, faster: Linux
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