RE: [PLUG] pre-reboot scripted message?

["kaze" <kaze@voicenet.com>]

WOW.

Don't totally get all of it, but I put it in and *** will test on Tues ***
when I'm on site!

--> -----Original Message-----
--> From: plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org
--> [mailto:plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org]On Behalf Of gabriel
--> rosenkoetter
--> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 12:38 PM
--> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
--> Subject: Re: [PLUG] pre-reboot scripted message?
-->
-->
--> On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 09:42:00AM -0400, kaze wrote:
--> > I will try to figure out what an rc script is and how this is
--> triggered as
--> > I'm sure there's a bunch of ways to reboot. TX
-->
--> Here, try this:
-->
--> # cat > /etc/init.d/openlid.sh
--> #!/bin/sh
-->
--> echo "Open the lid on ns2 and then press return to continue."
--> read foo
--> ^D
--> # ln -s /etc/init.d/openlid.sh /etc/rc6.d/S01openlid.sh
-->
--> That'll get everything you can get. (Any reboot that doesn't process
--> /etc/rc6.d won't process any scripts at all, so you're screwed
--> anyway.) I don't recall if Linux has reboot(8) parse /etc/rc6.d or
--> not. But you might want to have people only reboot the machine with
--> `shutdown -r now` or with `init 6`.
-->
--> --
--> gabriel rosenkoetter
--> gr@eclipsed.net
-->

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