Michael Regan wrote:
> I am running version 3.1. The menu screen,
> /sbin/e-smith/console is runnning on both tty1 and tty2. Why?
> Can I safely shut down the version on tty2? ( Edit inittab )
No, if you do that, it'll come back again some time in the future when inittab is generated again from its template. See
http://www.e-smith.org/ for information about the e-smith template system.
> Is there any way of password protecting access to the config
> and reboot menus from the /sbin/e-smith/console script?
e-smith 4 which is in late beta test has that as a standard option.
> How is whiptail different from dialog?
Sorry, you'll have to look at the source to find out

I'm
sure that whiptail is a derivative of dialog, but I'm not sure what is different.
Charlie