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Title: Console - menus - whiptail
Post by: Michael Regan on June 14, 2000, 08:29:32 AM

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 )

Is there any way of password protecting access to the config and reboot menus from the /sbin/e-smith/console script?

How is whiptail different from dialog?

Title: RE: Console - menus - whiptail
Post by: Charlie Brady on June 17, 2000, 08:05:20 AM

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

Title: RE: Console - menus - whiptail
Post by: Charlie Brady on June 17, 2000, 11:40:27 AM

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

Title: RE: Console - menus - whiptail
Post by: Charlie Brady on June 19, 2000, 05:38:57 AM

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